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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone are book dealers.  They tell Anne Strainchamps what a first edition Harry Potter is going for now, and how the New England forger fooled the industry for a long time.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Michael Wood's latest documentary film for PBS is called "Shangri-La." Wood tells Jim Fleming about his journey through the Himalayas.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Here's our final poem to share for this National Poetry Month, Jim reading Max Garland's "A Lesson in Love."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Historian Jeremi Suri gives a new take on the sixties. Suri says national leaders began to cooperate with each other because none of them could communicate with the youth at home.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Kayla Williams tells Anne Strainchamps that women soldiers feel sexism from their fellow soldiers, even in war zones, and that it complicates their lives.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

In Mark Salzman’s novel “Lying Awake,” a Carmelite nun learns that her religious raptures may be symptoms of epilepsy.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Mr. Cutlets really loves meat. He talks about his favorite cuts and how to cook them and why his last meal would be a pastrami sandwich.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Acclaimed novelist Colson Whitehead got the magazine assignment of a lifetime: a week in Vegas, playing in the World Series of Poker.  He tells Doug Gordon about high stakes poker and his own "anhedonia," his difficulty experiencing pleasure.

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