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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Steve Paulson talks with a contemporary master of metafiction - writer Robert Coover. Coover's latest novel is "A Child Again."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Dominican-born writer Junot Diaz -- the MacArthur genius, Pulitzer Prize-winning author has written some of some of the most brilliant contemporary fiction about the immigrant experience. 

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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Leonard Steinhorn tells Jim Fleming that Boomer Bashing is the last acceptable prejudice in America, and that it's nothing new.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Wisconsin Public Television producer Patty Loew talks with Anne Strainchamps about her TV documentary "Way of the Warrior".

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Will we ever understand the true nature of dark matter and dark energy?  Harvard cosmologist Lisa Randall considers these and other great mysteries in physics.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

The stereotype of photojournalists is that they’re adrenaline junkies.  Risk takers.  But they're often surprisingly humble about their work -- maybe because their job is to erase themselves, to become the lens that lets us see the world.  Here photojournalist Brendan Bannon talks about finding beauty in the midst of suffering and about a photo he took at the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya. 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Novelist Joanna Trollope reads from "Second Honeymoon" and talks about why the empty nest syndrome is particularly difficult for women.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Michael Perry is proud to be a Wisconsin writer.  He writes with humor and grace about his life there in the books, "Population: 485," and "Truck: A Love Story."  So, what's life like, as a writer from the Midwest?

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