Quitting

Stories of people who quit everything in their lives that they hated—and what happened to them afterwards. Prologue: Evan Harris was entrenched in her life, stalled and going nowhere both personally and professionally. A silly conversation with a co-worker about the letter "Q" led her to start a magazine called Quitter Quarterly. That one conversation changed her life completely. (22 minutes) Act One: A story about quitting by Sandra Tsing Loh. (10 minutes) Act Two: Ira explores the question of when it's time to quit a relationship through rare recordings of bickering between roommates—recorded by the next-door neighbors. (9 minutes) Act Three: Lisa Buscani reads a two-part story about not being able to quit something or someone. The piece was written for This American Life. (13 minutes) Act Four: Dwight Okita reads the poem "Farewell Samba" from his book Crossing with the Light. Ira Glass reads Philip Larkin's poem "Poetry of Departures." (3 minutes)