Ira Glass presents Terry Gross with Literarian Award, 2007

Part 1 of 2 - Ira Glass, host and producer of public radio's "This American Life," presents the National Book Foundation's Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community to Terry Gross.

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[toenacious]

You can tell Ira is a radio man the way he reads straight off the paper. Pretty bad to watch but, as Ira always is, great to listen too.

[bjjolley]

Holy crap, Teri Gross is teeny!

Glass and Gross are masters of their crafts.

[eka707]

So in love with both of these people (Ira and Terry). Incredible speeches.

[slowflowheat]

Fran Lebowitz is awesome

[NotZeMaidOfOrleansFV]

@naizret

Lmao. No, hun, I don't.

[naizret]

@NotZeMaidOfOrleansFV 'Intellectually inadequate' compared to Ira Glass? Surely you jest.

[NotZeMaidOfOrleansFV]

@naizret

You think his "voice" is pretentious? You're either projecting because you feel intellectually inadequate, or you just don't understand that word.

[naizret]

Is there a school somewhere that teaches NPR personalities to speak in that characteristically whiny, nasal, pretentious, grousing voice? Listening to Ira is like dragging oneself across shards of Glass on a concrete floor. Indeed, almost as excruciating as Diane Rehm.

[fiandrhi]

Fran Lebowitz is more manly than Ira Glass.