BADASS of the Week: Ira Glass
Host and Executive Producer, This American Life
Ira Glass started working in public radio in 1978, when he was 19, as an intern at National Public Radio's headquarters in Washington. Over the next 17 years, he worked just about every NPR news show and did just about any and every production job they had. His job experience ranges from tape-cutter, to desk assistant, to newscast writer, to editor, to producer, to reporter and substitute host.
He spent a year in a high school for NPR, and a year in an elementary school, filing every week or two for All Things Considered.
He put This American Life on the air in November of 1995.
He is a vegetarian.
He dated cartoonist Lynda Barry and moved to Chicago in 1989 to be with her.
Barry has written a comic story about the relationship, entitled "Head Lice and My Worst Boyfriend," in her book One! Hundred! Demons!.
He gets my vote for Monday BADASS.
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