Determination

Guest host Jane Kaczmarek presents three stories about acting purposefully.  In Tobias Wolff’s “In the Garden of the North American Martyrs,” a meek academic goes off the rails.  The young boy in Doris Lessing’s “Through the Tunnel” dares himself to make a dangerous swim, and the confident young woman in “Barbara Stanwyck, It's Your Time to Shine" by Bianca Galvez isn’t taking nonsense from anyone.