Today, it's our salute to Mom! This American Life celebrates mother's day with a short story written and read by Tillie Olson. Then, James McBride remembers his mother in his memoir, The Color of Water. Next, Deborah Tannen reminds us that mothers and daughters might love each other, but they can also drive each other crazy.

We'll begin with Steve Karesh giving us the top 10 fiction downloads from audible.com®. Then, Beth Anderson talks to the master of cool crime fiction, Elmore Leonard, and we'll hear clips from his audiobooks A Coyote's in the House and The Hot Kid.

In this issue: "Boy Wonder"; "Finely Tuned"; and "Rwanda Rising".

"Pileup" by Hendrik Hertzberg; "Elements of E-Style" by Nick Paumgarten; "Sh-h-h" by Michael Schulman; "India's Skills Famine" by James Surowiecki; "My First Passport" by Orhan Pamuk; "There and Back Again" by Nick Paumgarten; "The Wives of Others" by Rebecca Mead; "Feeling It" by Sasha Frere-Jones; "Landscape Artist" by Nancy Franklin; and "Sleaze City" by David Denby.

An update on the 2008 Presidential campaigns with Mark Halerpin, Political Analyst for ABC News; Jonathan Alter, columnist for Newsweek; Kristin Jensen, reporter for Bloomberg News; and Jeff Zeleny of The New York Times. Then, Ira Glass, Host and Executive Producer of This American Life.

Bob talks to public radio producer Ira Glass. A long time ago, Ira made Bob pretend to be a wizard for a radio play he wrote. Now Ira Glass's radio program, This American Life, is to be a television show. The TV show premiers March 22 on Showtime and a movie deal with Dreamworks was recently signed. But Glass says his core business is still radio.

A live broadcast from Monona Terrace in Madison, Wisconsin. Tune in to hear the finalists of the Whad'Ya Idol Notmuch Talent Contest. Three contestants compete, but only one wins a trip to Madison to appear on the live April 14th show.

This is the very best of David Sedaris in an exclusive digital audio box set! For a great low price, you'll get the master satirist reading all his greatest books, along with a live recording of a performance at Carnegie Hall.

If you are driving, pull over. If you are at work, close your door, unless you don't mind your colleagues seeing you doubled over, in tears, on your office floor. With this recording, taped before a delirious sold out audience at Carnegie Hall, you are there as David Sedaris performs new stories from his upcoming book. A parrot who mimics an ice maker, lovers quarrelling over a rubber hand, and a Santa Claus who moonlights from his job as bishop of Turkey, the cast of characters is like no other.

David Sedaris' collection of essays - including live recordings! - tells a most unconventional life story. With every clever turn of a phrase, Sedaris brings a view and a voice like no other to every unforgettable encounter. You can also listen to Sedaris in an interview with Terry Gross on Fresh Air.