NPR Funniest Driveway Moments includes stories and interviews from your favorite NPR commentators and guests such as David Sedaris, Sarah Silverman, Carl Reiner, Mel Brooks, Dame Edna, Larry David, Darryl Littleton, Justice Stephen Breyer, Jonathan Winters, Phyllis Diller, Steve Martin, Lily Tomlin, and more. Literate, intelligent, and droll, each tale is worth hearing again and again, and now you don’t have to stay in your car. Some are serious, some are touching, and some, like the stories included here, are very, very funny. A “driveway moment” is when you’re so captivated by a story on NPR that you stay in your car to hear it to the end-even if you’re sitting in your own driveway. Selected from the National Public Radio archives, these stories by some of NPR’s favorite commentators will keep listeners laughing. Essays, Performing Arts, Nonfiction, Humor (Nonfiction)
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Sides lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with his wife Anne Goodwin Sides, a journalist and former NPR editor. In 2017, he was awarded an honorary doctorate in humane letters from Colorado College. Early life Ī native of Memphis, Sides attended PDS Memphis and Memphis University School, and graduated from Yale with a BA in history. His magazine work, collected in numerous published anthologies, has been twice nominated for National Magazine Awards for feature writing. Sides is editor-at-large for Outside magazine and has written for such periodicals as National Geographic, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, Esquire, Men's Journal, The American Scholar, Smithsonian, and The Washington Post. He is the author of Hellhound on His Trail, Ghost Soldiers, Blood and Thunder, On Desperate Ground, and other bestselling works of narrative history and literary non-fiction. Wade Hampton Sides (born 1962) is an American historian, author and journalist. Hampton Sides speaking at a 2016 literary conference in Napa Valley Alan and Carrie are members of Sam Jones United Methodist Church in Cartersville. In 2018, they welcomed their daughter Lilly. They live in Cartersville, in the house that Alan grew up in. He completed residency training at the Floyd Family Medicine program in Rome, Georgia and became a Board Certified Family Physician by the state of Georgia in 2016.Īlan and his wife, Carrie, have been married since 2014. He then headed to the Midwest to begin his medical career at Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences. Barnes has been a lifelong native of Cartersville, Ga. After graduating from Cartersville High School, he attended the University of Georgia, graduating with a B.S. Barnes said, “Georgia Direct Family Care will be family medicine the old fashioned way with extended visits, same day appointments, and home visits when needed.” In August, he started his own practice in downtown Cartersville. 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