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[Contains explicit content] Tag sale guru Mona is an anchor for her clients whose lives are in transit. But even she isn’t immune to the complicated emotions involved in giving old stuff a new life.

[Contains explicit content] After crashing the memorial service for street photographer Bill Cunningham, Kathleen Horan realizes it’s the random but personal connections we make that give New York City its magic.

A devastating assault. A day in court. A story of how this powerful person turned loss into gain.

[Contains explicit content] Douglas is intimate with the city in a way few others will ever be: through its trash. From bloody pennies to a prized baseball card, the sanitation worker shares what he’s seen when no one was looking.

[Contains explicit content] Frankie followed his love of costumes from the Navy to a Manhattan club. Now he can’t imagine a life without wigs, dresses, and the support of his co-stars.

[Contains explicit content] This week, Faith talks to the queen of “chick lit,” Sophie Kinsella, whose new novel is My Not So Perfect Life. They dig into the “chick lit” label to see how fair and accurate it is, and discuss how the rise of technology has affected the ways in which writers approach relationships in their work. Plus, in the second installment of Faith’s attempts to write a Romance scene, she visits Harlequin’s offices to get some feedback from Romance editor Patience Bloom.

[Contains explicit content] This week, Faith talks with Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Sharon Olds about her new collection, Odes, which includes poems like “Blow Job Ode” and “Ode of Withered Cleavage.” Plus, Columbia professor Erik Gray talks about why there’s so much bad love poetry, and why his favorite romantic poem comes from…the Bible.

[Contains explicit content] This week, author and transgender rights activist Jennifer Finney Boylan discusses her new mystery Long Black Veil, and how loving a partner changes over the course of a decades-long relationship. Plus, photojournalist Glenna Gordon takes us to Kano, Nigeria, home to a vibrant community of Muslim women who write littattafan soyayya, or “literature of love”.

A small town she loves. A big realization. What happens when rural traditions need reinventing?

[Contains explicit content] In this special Mother’s Day bonus interview, Faith talks with her friends – comedians Adam and Susie Felber -- about what it was like growing up with a mom who wrote Romance novels.

Years of depression. Scores of medications. An original approach to living with mental health, from the bottom up.

[Contains explicit content] This week, Faith sits down with YA author Kami Garcia to talk about her new teen romance The Lovely Reckless, how she channels her inner 17 year old while writing, and what it was like to date in high school while having an undercover cop for a parent. Plus, Kami talks about her past life as a teacher, and how that prepared her to write YA fiction.

Mark Twain, beloved American writer, performer, and humorist, was a self-proclaimed glutton. With the help of a chef and some friends, Nick Offerman presents the story of Twain’s life through the lens of eight of Mark Twain’s favorite foods.

Pulitzer-Prize winning novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen takes us to Southern California's Little Saigon, known for its strip malls and tract homes. There, Nguyen unearths a culture that is firmly set in the U.S. but always looking over its shoulder to Vietnam.

[Contains explicit content] Charlie LeDuff takes participatory journalism to new heights in an effort to highlight the tragedies and triumphs of Detroit. He's eaten cat food to lament the lack of funding for Meals on Wheels, and hit golf balls through abandoned buildings to draw attention to city blight. In this episode, we discover how he's tackled rampant arson and the rebuilding of Motor City.

What happens when a city girl from Los Angeles unexpectedly inherits 800 acres of sugarcane in southern Louisiana? Join author Natalie Baszile – along with former sugarcane farmer Rene Simon and other trusted sources – as she rediscovers her southern roots and mines the landscape for her novel Queen Sugar; the inspiration for the Oprah Winfrey Network TV show.

[Contains explicit content] Decades ago, you sent hundreds of people to prison. And to this day, you know a lot of those sentences weren’t fair. How do you make things right? As a federal judge in the mid-90s, Nancy Gertner’s hands were tied by laws that forced her to come down severely against drug offenses – especially when crack cocaine was involved. We often think of judges as all-powerful in their courts.

[Contains explicit content] The series begins with the deaths of two young black men. First, Freddie Gray, who died after police arrested him and threw him into the back of a police van in Baltimore. Then, Len Bias: the rising college basketball player. His cocaine overdose in 1986 helped ignite a new, more aggressive phase of the War On Drugs, one that zeroed in on crack cocaine and black communities.

[Contains explicit content] Close your eyes and think “crack dealer.” Who do you see? How about a chubby big brother from the Chicago projects, who played high school football and made sure everyone did their homework before bed? Eric Wilson had a mantra: protect the family. So, when the jobs weren’t coming and his mom’s drug problem got in the way, Eric did what he had to do. He sold crack cocaine.

[Contains explicit content] Welcome to Washington, DC - the nation’s capital. By the late 1980s, the crack cocaine trade had transformed DC into the "murder capital" of America. In this episode, Christopher Johnson takes a trip back home, to the DC area, to remember just how devastating crack cocaine was for the city. A former narcotics cop takes him across the Anacostia River, and through what was once a notorious open-air crack market.