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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Novelist Jonathan Lethem's new book is called "You Don't Love Me Yet." It's the story of an alternative rock band in Los Angeles trying to find success and themselves.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Writer Peter Mayle tells Steve Paulson about growing French wine, and drinking rather a lot of it.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Ricardo Pitts-Wiley contributed to an essay by Henry Jenkins called "Multiculturalism, Appropriation, and the New Media Literacies: Remixing Moby Dick."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Steve Almond has loved football his whole life. But after investigating the violence and social ills that shape football, he explains why he no longer watches his favorite sport.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Paul Krugman wrote an article called “For Richer” for the New York Times Magazine. He tells Steve Paulson that there is a widening chasm between the super rich and the rest of us.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

People do without money in many different ways – from simple bartering to using bitcoin on-line. A group of parents in Madison did it by creating a babysitting coop.

Want to start your own babysitting COOP? Here are their guidelines.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Julie Norem is the author of “The Power of Negative Thinking.”  She tells Jim Fleming about her strategy of “defensive pessimism,” and explains the good it can do.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

As editor of Poetry Magazine, Christian Wiman reads thousands of new poems a year. Who better to check in with on the state of English language poetry? 

Hear Wiman talk about his own writing here.

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