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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jane Juska was 67 when she placed a personal ad in the NY Review of Books looking for good sex with a man she liked.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Mark Jacobson and his wife took their three children on a 90-day trip around the world. They've written a book called "12,000 Miles in the Nick of Time: A Semi-Dysfunctional Family Circumnavigates the Globe."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Julia Mickenberg tells Steve that some of the best known children's book writers were longtime political radicals.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Leonard Zwilling tells Jim Fleming about boxing’s impact on the English language.  It’s yielded such words and phrases as fan, throw in the towel, and up to scratch.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Writer Ayelet Waldman was struggling...with her marriage, her kids, her life.Then she took daily microdoses of LSD for a month and found a kind of beauty and calm she hadn’t known for years.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Nicholas Carr believes the Internet is rewiring the human brain with its instant access to all sorts of information.  Are we losing our ability to focus on one thing for any length of time?

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Norman George wrote and stars in “Poe Alone” - a play set during the writer’s last public lecture.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Richard Price has a hit with his novel "Lush Life." It's a crime story, but Price says his book has nothing to do with detective fiction or any other genre.

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