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12:49

Food

The son of a farmer leaves Chilmark and travels the world, eventually becoming a successful chef. He returns home to start his own restaurant and serves the Obamas.

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09:43

Caution: Eating

by Evan Kleiman

The trials of opening a restaurant are overtaking her life, but then a piece of tomato nearly kills her.

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09:18

Birth of a Nation

by Petina Gappah

Social upheaval in the early days of Zimbabwe.

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05:53

Cub to King

by Liz Allen

A whiney kid on an camping trip.

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06:43

Cat-Cow-Meow

by John Dubuc

A “man’s man" goes to a yoga retreat and gets in touch with his inner cat.

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06:37

Las Doñas of Humboldt Park

by Lily Be

Lily Be discovers her grandmother’s love, but only after a fist fight.

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06:46

The Number In His Pocket

by Jon Jay Read

A man is called to identify a body.

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06:00

Haircut

by Carole Zabar

A young woman outgrows her long red hair.

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07:34

The Conversation

by Jen Lee

A mother and daughter start "the conversation."

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10:38

The Cockroach

by Josh Axelrad

An encounter with a cockroach is psychologically challenging for a gambling man.

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07:32

The Entertainer

by Peter Aguero

A young man recalls how his job as an Italian ice truck driver turned ugly.

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18:23

Radical Honesty

by Starlee Kine

While doing research for a book on self help, a young writer finds herself getting sucked into a cult.

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09:32

You Can Lead a Horse to Water

by Sam Shepard

Sam Shepard brings his personal horse to the set of “The Right Stuff.”

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14:28

My Innocent Murderer and Guilty Mugger

by Anne Driscoll

On her last night in Dublin working to exonerate wrongly-convicted criminals, Anne is the victim of an attempted mugging that challenges her conception of the police and legal systems.

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