Jay Allison on people moving into their dream neighborhoods, and their new neighbors' reactions.

Meema Spadola with Lou Zeidberg.

Howard Rabinowitz and The Truth About Cats and Dogs. (4 minutes)

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

Writer Sarah Vowell goes to Rock-n-Roll Fantasy Camp in Miami Beach.

A story by therapist Lauren Slater about a case she had with a tough man obsessed with porn and how he changed.

Tapes from the Apology Line and interview with "Mrs. Apology," Marissa Bridge.

Dr Patricia Deegan hears voices in her head. She's a psychologist and she believes that the only way mental health workers can really understand what their patients go through is if they hear voices themselves.

Two people who've nearly died in gun battles describe what it's like, getting shot at. They draw opposite conclusions from their near death experiences.

An inextinguishable subterranean fire on the edge of a small Pennsylvania town, and why the residents are not afraid of it. Host Ira Glass and This American Life contributor Alix Spiegel.

The small town dilemma.

Writer Julie Showalter on her parents' romance.

A history of the brief mayoral career of Harold Washington, and its lessons for Black and white America, as told by people close to him. Many are activists and politicians: Lu Palmer, Judge Eugene Pincham, Congressman Danny Davis, and then-alderman Eugene Sawyer.

Susan Bergman and the Christian convention. Susan is the author of Anonymity.

"Edison, New Jersey," a story about delivering pool tables from Junot Diaz's book Drown.

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

Alix Spiegel in Colorado Springs, where a massive prayer project is underway to pray for every person, business, and school. When she arrives, she finds the Christians speak a kind of Christian jargon she does not understand.

Ira with Lloyd Natoff, on killing chickens.

This American Life gets a return visit from Evan Harris, the woman who used to believe that quitting was the one thing at the heart of all human existence.

Hollywood is all about the idea of getting something for nothing, and no show on the subject would be complete without a Hollywood story. Writer Sandra Tsing Loh provides it.

Rennie Sparks from the band The Handsome Family.

Host Ira Glass goes to the Federal Express hub at Memphis to watch 1.2 million pieces of overnight mail get sorted in one night and to talk to the adrenaline junkies in the FedEx Command Center.

A story by Margy Rochlin.

Ira reads from In Dreams Begin Responsibilities. (7 minutes)