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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jim Fleming reads excerpts from Murakami's book "What I Talk About When I Talk About Running."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Christian Rudder, the founder of OKCupid, thinks cupid’s arrow may just be an algorithm.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Maurice Sendak has written and narrates a story called "Pincus and the Pig: A Klezmer Tale."  It's based on Prokofiev's "Peter and the Wolf".

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Peter Guralnick has written a prize-winning two part biography of Elvis Presley. Now he's tackled Sam Cooke.

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

Norwegian jazz musician Kristin Asbjorsen has turned Bukowski’s poetry into music for a film version of his novel “Factotum.”

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

John Haught believes these so called "new atheists" simply don't measure up to the old athiests like Nietzsche and Camus.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

David Rothenberg has played music with birds and even whales. But his latest music project is much less, well, melodious…

 . . . like playing music with insects. He’s recorded songs with a lot of them -- crickets and cicadas and yes, even mosquitoes.

Producer Craig Eley sat down with David Rothenberg to talk “bug music.”

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