Ira with Lloyd Natoff, on killing chickens.

Some stunning parallels between the political strategies of the two leaders, by John Matisonn.

Professor Stephen Pyne.

Nancy Updike and UPS Men.

A story by Margy Rochlin.

Julia Sweeney reads this story. She's a former Saturday Night Live cast member and star of the sad and comic memoir of life with cancer, God Said, "Ha!," which played on Broadway.

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

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

We begin to hear a story by Scott Carrier.

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

Journalist Margy Rochlin on her first big assignment to do a celebrity interview. It was 1982.

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

The people of Chicago speak out.

A hemophiliac teenager who tries to set world records and to motocross.

Richard Lyons, from the band Negativland, tells the story of a Xeroxed book he put together for a few friends. It's photos of smashed-up cars in a junkyard.

David Rakoff on how he tried to pass as a local once he moved from Toronto to New York. He claims that there must be a chip in his head — or something like it — that automatically tells him when someone or something famous is Canadian.

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.

The first part of Josh Seftel and Rich Robinson's documentary about South Africa. Josh meets people who may be distant South African relatives.

Photographer Joel Meyerowitz decided to go on a last big trip with his father, Hy, who has Alzheimer's. Joel also brought his own son.

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.

David Sedaris recounts his shameful career as a performance artist. Recorded before a live audience by KUOW Seattle.

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.

South Carolina native Jack Hitt discusses the Confederate Flag's prominent place over the statehouse.