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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

Lynn Garrett tells Steve Paulson that bookstores are selling out of books on Islam and terrorism, and that there’s strong interest in books that tackle fundamental moral questions.

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Paul Feig is the creator of the short-lived TV show “Freaks and Geeks”. He tells Anne Strainchamps he and the other writers based the show on incidents from their own lives.

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Jeff Ferrell gave up life as a tenured professor and became a dumpster diver. His new book is "Empire of Scrounge."

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Michael Chabon defends the position that genre fiction is just as worthy of respect as any other fiction.

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Mona Golabek is a concert pianist.  She tells Anne Strainchamps that her grandmother made loving music her parting gift to her daughter.

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The French have a curatorial attitude toward their language, but in fact they add new words all the time.

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Joelle Fraser wrote a memoir called “The Territory of Men.” She talks about her parents who did their best, despite pre-Women’s Lib conditioning and alcoholism.

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