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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Salman Rushdie tells Steve Paulson about his very first memories of "The Wizard of Oz."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Novelist Wesley Stace (AKA musician John Wesley Harding) tells Jim what the original novel, "Tristram Shandy," is all about.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Novelist Tom Perrotta talks with Anne Strainchamps about life in the suburbs, where everything is nice, and nobody wants a pedophile to move into the neighborhood.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Journalist William Claassen calls himself a nomadic pilgrim. He spent many years traveling to cloistered communities from various religious traditions around the world.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Tad Pierson runs a tour business called “American Dream Safari.”  He takes his clients on tours of Memphis and into Mississippi in his 1955 Cadillac named Mansfield.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Brendan Koerner talks about his book, "The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Vivek Maddala composes new scores for silent movies.  He tells Steve Paulson how music can tell a story.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Dubbed a secular mosque for the Arab world, the Burj Khalifa dominates the Dubai skyline. As it should: it's by far the tallest building in the world. It's so tall that during Ramadan, Muslims living on higher floors have to break their fast 2 minutes later than those on lower floors because they see the sunset later in the day.

Steve Paulson sat down with legendary architecture critic Paul Goldberger to talk all things Burj Kalifa.

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