In 1940, Jack Geiger, at the age of fourteen, left his middle-class Jewish home and knocked on the door of a black actor named Canada Lee. He asked Lee if he could move in with him.

Paul Johnson, Carlos Appleby, and Sanantonio Brooks talk about how their housing project is like a small town.

A family dreams of life in rural Maine, moves there, and then things get really complicated.

Paul Tough visits Catherine Chalmers. She raises small animals and insects in her apartment, feeds them to each other, and photographs them eating each other.

How two next-door neighbors start treating each other badly, and how, once they start, they become obsessed with each other. Paul Tough reports.

Jerry Capeci, dean of the New York reporters who cover organized crime, on the decline of the mob in recent years. And Alec Wilkinson of the New Yorker magazine, who discusses a photo his wife took of his old neighbors, the Gambino crime family.

Host Ira Glass talks to Amanda, who's 16 and lives with her mom in a Christian commune in Chicago.