NPR Holiday Favorites (CD-Audio)

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.

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“What a holiday gift from NPR.”
—The Providence Journal

“What a holiday gift from NPR.”
      —The Providence Journal