Emily Udell interviews Barbara Ehrenreich. Ehrenreich’s new book Bait and Switch is an account of her odyssey through the world of job fairs, career coaches, networking events and white-collar job insecurity.

Aaron Sarver talks with Lewis Lapham, author of the new book With the Beatles. Lapham has been editor of Harper’s magazine since 1983, and introduced the widely copied “Harper’s Index.”

Also on this episode are readings about home and homelessness from members of the Neighborhood Writing Alliance, a Chicago organization dedicated to the notion that every person is a philosopher. The NWA hosts workshops around the city and puts out the quarterly publication the Journal of Ordinary Thought.