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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Studs Terkel tells Steve Paulson why his friend Nelson Algren is one of America's great literary secrets. Among Terkel's latest books is "Hope Dies Last."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Famous for its hot tubs and its yoga and massage workshops, Esalen Institute actually began as a place to explore the underlying philosophy of spiritual experience, and then popularized America's particular brand of "spirituality without religion." Sitting on the deck of Murphy House at Esalen, Steve Paulson talks with co-founder Michael Murphy and comparative religion scholar Jeffrey Kripal, author of the definitive history of Esalen.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

There’s another place where food and death go together, but it’s a place we don’t like to talk about: the last meal. Brian Price has prepared the last meals for some 200 inmates on Death Row in Texas prisons. 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

T.C. Boyle's new novel features a face-off between an animals rights activist and a biologist.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Thomas Dumm tells Anne Strainchamps why he thinks a lonely society can be a dangerous one and he's worried about America. His book is "Loneliness As a Way of Life."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Scott Topper reads from the meditation journal he kept after learning a simple meditation from Buddhist monk George Churinoff.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

British actor Simon Callow is writing Orson Welles' biography. Volume 2 is called "Hello Americans."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

British comedian Ross Noble hosts a show for the BBC. The premise is to go to remote places in the world and try to do stand-up.

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