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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Marcel Danesi tells Steve Paulson why it’s dangerous for a culture when its members forsake maturity and wisdom in favor of a search for eternal youth.  

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Laura Miller talks with Steve Paulson about her long relationship with the Narnia books. She read them as a child and loved them.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Robert Leleux talks about growing up gay, in Texas, with his plastic surgery junkie and drama queen of a mother, whom he adores and who is accompanying him on his book tour.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Sports Illustrated writer Jeff MacGregor spent a year on the NASCAR circuit and writes about it in "Sunday Money: Speed! Lust! Madness! Death!"

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Pagan Kennedy is the author of “Black Livingstone,” a biography of 19th century black American missionary William Sheppard.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Not all illustrators agree on what to call graphic novels or when the first one appeared, but most agree that the man who brought them into the mainstream was Will Eisner.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Nathan Radke talks about why the characters from the “Peanuts” comic strip can be seen as acting out the dilemmas of existentialism. 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Feeling lonely is a signal that we need to interact with others as fundamental to our well-being as signals like hunger and thirst.

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