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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Is marriage great literary material?  That’s the question Jeffrey Eugenides plays with in his novel, “The Marriage Plot”. It’s a story about how reading can shape young minds. 

In this UNCUT interview, Steve Paulson talks with Eugenides about marriage, love, reading, the spiritual quest,...

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jeremy Denk isn't only a gifted concert pianist; he also has a flair for writing about music.  He tells Steve Paulson about a lifetime of studying the art of piano.

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Filmmaker Astra Taylor believes our digital life is undemocratic -- that we're concentrating power into the hands of giant tech companies, who make money off our posts and tweet. She tells Anne Strainchamps why she believes there should be greater regulation of the Internet.

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What's it like to hang out with the U.S. president?  Journalist Michael Lewis found out when he shadowed Barack Obama for 8 months, even playing in one of Obama's pick-up basketball games. 

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According to psychologist Meagan Curtis, the inherent sadness of the minor third is what we hear in music.

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Richard Marcinko is CEO of a private security firm which trains mercenaries and he candidly tells Steve Paulson about waging war and interrogating prisoners from a mercenary's point of view.

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Robert Ellis Orrall is a musician who lives in Nashville, on the same street where Al Gore bought a house.  So he wrote a song about it!

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Norwegian novelist Karl Ove Knausgaard discusses his six-volume autobiographical novel, "My Struggle."

You could also listen to an extended interview with Karl Ove Knausgaard.

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