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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

More stories from you -- about precious bits of handwriting you've saved over the years.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

David Rothenberg has played music with birds and even whales. But his latest music project is much less, well, melodious…

 . . . like playing music with insects. He’s recorded songs with a lot of them -- crickets and cicadas and yes, even mosquitoes.

Producer Craig Eley sat down with David Rothenberg to talk “bug music.”

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Joelle Biele discusses the correspondences between poet Elizabeth Bishop and The New Yorker.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

We have a new Poet Laureate here in the U.S. Listen in as Natasha Trethewey talks about the history and memory embedded in her work.

You can hear more of Trethewey's poems here.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Kirsten Bakis first wrote her story of biomechanically-enhanced, hyper-intelligent dogs 20 years ago, and it’s been a cult favorite ever since. So why create a post-modern Frankenstein story with dogs at the heart of the tale?

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

M.E. Thomas talks about her book, "Confessions of a Sociopath: A LIfe Spent Hiding in Plain Sight."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

British novelist Nick Hornby has written a funny book about suicide.  It's called "A Long Way Down."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Lauren Weedman was adopted. When she got curious about her birth parents, her adoptive mother organized a conspiracy to track them down.

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