NPR Holiday Favorites

Summary

• David Sedaris contributes his now classic “Santaland Diaries,” his account of his experiences playing Santa’s little helper at Macy’s in New York.
• Susan Stamberg sneaks her mother-in-law’s recipe for cranberry relish onto the air—again.
• Storyteller Kevin Kling finds an invitation to participate in a production of The Nutcracker too tempting to resist.
• Ghanian-born commentator Meri Danquah shares her thoughts on Kwanzaa.
• Cowboy poet Baxter Black describes a Christmas cookie with “the denseness of an anvil and the half-life of a radial tire.”
• Robert Siegel goes in search of the correct spelling for December’s Jewish holiday.
• The Thanksgiving tables are turned on unsuspecting Bostonians in “When Turkeys Attack.”
• And more.