Sarah Vowell, on selling the secrets of art dealer Graham Arader.

Ira with Lloyd Natoff, on killing chickens.

Independent producer Dan Collison, on Pilottown and a feature story that fell apart.

Scott Carrier in Salt Lake City with a story about whether it's possible to be a good person if you're not a Christian.

New York City locksmith Joel Kostman tells the story of an act of kindness he committed, hoping for a small reward. From his book: Keys to the City: Tales of a New York City Locksmith.

Andrea worked at a bakery under a convention hotel in Chicago. The conventioneers used to drive her crazy because people act so different when they're in a crowd of their own kind.

Reporter Paul Tough talks with Aaron Hsu-Flanders, an acknowledged master in the field of animal balloons, who says that artistic jealousies have ruined his life. Even in the world of latex giraffes and doggies, there are artistic rivalries and bitterness.

There can be consequences for reading other people's mail.

Ron Carlson's short story.

Beau O'Reilly tells the story of a man who tried to run for President as a utopian nudist.

Ira interviews Bob Helms, creator of the zine Guinea Pig Zero, which is about people who make their living by donating their bodies to science for medical experiments. Bob says he wouldn't do spinal tap studies or psychoactive drugs (he calls the people who do the latter "brain sluts").

Wisconsin Public Radio wanted to do something simple: start running Car Talk, the most popular single hour on public radio. But to do this, they had to move their local car show, About Cars, from the morning to the afternoon.

Thomas Lynch reads from his book The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade.

Singles in Agriculture. By reporter Liz Weil and Alix Spiegel.

Tony Starbucks, interviewed by Dierdre Dolan and Paul Tough.