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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Orhan Pamuk is Turkey’s most famous writer and a cultural ambassador for Turkey around the world.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Joe Garden is features editor at the satirical newspaper, "The Onion."  He tells Jim Fleming the campaign season was a great one for comedy, but it went on way too long.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

David Galenson teaches Economics at the University of Chicago, and he's the author of a book called "Old Masters and Young Geniuses: The Two Life Cycles of Artistic Creativity." His theory is that most artists are either old masters like Cezanne or young geniuses like Picasso.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Paul Ekman tells Jim Fleming about different kinds of lies, and the physical signs that signal deceit.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

John Pollack collected well over a hundred thousand wine corks and used them to build a replica of a Viking ship which he then sailed in Portugal.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

 Inspired by the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements and by African-American activists and artists Giovanni’s poetry has become synonymous with the struggle of African-Americans, and especially the struggle of Black women.

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

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.

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