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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

Novelist Nicholson Baker tells Anne Strainchamps that e-readers have some advantages over the printed book, but the Kindle isn't his favorite.

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

Justine Picardie is a writer for British Vogue and a former editor at London’s Observer. She talks about her efforts to contact her sister Ruth’s spirit in the year after Ruth’s death from breast cancer.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jennifer Hecht is the author of “Funny” – a book of poems based on jokes.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Lawrence Millman wrote the foreward and saw through the publication of Edward Beauclerk Maurice's diary.

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Jim Fleming reports how a new generation of American Buddhist teachers are adapting the Buddha's two thousand year old message for 21st century American audiences.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Mystery novelist P.D. James talks with Anne Strainchamps about “Death in Holy Orders,” the latest Adam Dalgleish book.

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