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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Natalie Goldberg talks about the process of writing a memoir and tells Anne Strainchamps why it is her favorite genre.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Michael Chabon wrote “Wonder Boys,” the source for the popular Michael Douglas film, and won the Pulitzer Prize for “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Klay.” Now he’s written a children’s book, “Summerland.”

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Nick Bostrom is a philosopher at Yale.  In his paper “The Simulation Argument,” he makes the case that life as we know it may be a computer simulation being run by our descendants.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

P.D. James created Adam Dalgleish, a detective almost as beloved as Holmes. Steve Paulson spoke with her on the occasion of the publication of her memoir, "Time to Be in Earnest: A Fragment of Autobiography."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Writer Peter Mayle tells Steve Paulson about growing French wine, and drinking rather a lot of it.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Paul Krugman wrote an article called “For Richer” for the New York Times Magazine. He tells Steve Paulson that there is a widening chasm between the super rich and the rest of us.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jane Siberry is a recording artist who’s worked in all sorts of popular music genres.  Anne Strainchamps talks with Jane Siberry about her music, prose and poetry.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

This week we mourn the death of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Here's his English translator, Edith Grossman.

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