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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

In this EXTENDED interview, Adam Mansbach talks about his new novel, "Rage is Back." 

 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Shortly after the U.S. Invaded Iraq in 2003, Lawrence Anthony traveled on his own to Baghdad to do what he could to save the animals in the Baghdad Zoo.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

British writer and playwright Michael Frayn talks with  Steve Paulson about “Headlong."  The book is about the painter Brueghel and the mania afflicting art collectors.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Michael Ruhlman is the author of “Wooden Boats: In Pursuit of the Perfect Craft at an American Boatyard.”  He says that wooden boats are alive and have souls.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Kirsten Bakis first wrote her story of biomechanically-enhanced, hyper-intelligent dogs 20 years ago, and it’s been a cult favorite ever since. So why create a post-modern Frankenstein story with dogs at the heart of the tale?

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Richard Weinshilboum talks with Steve Paulson about pharmaco-genetics, which will enable physicians to make up drugs specifically geared to each patient’s metabolism.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

We have a new Poet Laureate here in the U.S. Listen in as Natasha Trethewey talks about the history and memory embedded in her work.

You can hear more of Trethewey's poems here.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Oz Fox was the lead guitar player and a vocalist for Stryper - a hugely successful Christian heavy metal band. He tells Anne Strainchamps how the band became Christian musicians and how they combined the Christian message with the theatricality of glam rock.

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