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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Tom Lutz tells Jim Fleming that human beings are great  crybabies.  Lutz is the author of “Crying: The Natural & Cultural History of Tears.”

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Thomas Glave is a young, Black, gay writer who’s lived in New York and Jamaica.  Glave tells Jim Fleming that he tries to understand and identify with all of his characters.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

This dusty 4,000 year old clay tablet written in an ancient script called cuneiform turns out to be a recipe for building an Ark.  

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Scott Turow has made a career writing hugely successful legal thrillers, but then he turned to a World War II novel.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

First Amendment lawyer Ron Collins talks with Steve Paulson about the renegade comedian and junkie Lenny Bruce who was repeatedly arrested for obscenity.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

For others, football is sacred. In fact, William Dean says the game is part of "American spiritual culture." He talks with Jim Fleming about the way religious beliefs crop up in American popular culture.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

American by birth, Vijay Iyer is trying to create a new kind of music, a synthesis of Western jazz and Indian music.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Simon Critchley is the author of "The Book of Dead Philosophers," a quirky account of how various philosophers thought about death and died themselves.

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