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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

In this UNCUT conversation, Jonathan Lethem talks about "Dissident Gardens" and the many faces of a novelist. 

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Natasha Trethewey read Miscegenation.

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Katha Pollitt is a celebrated feminist writer and columnist for The Nation magazine. Her new book is "Learning to Drive."

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Mohsin Hamid is having a big year. His last novel, “The Reluctant Fundamentalist” just opened as a film by Mira Nair. He's got a new novel out too, called  “How To Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia.” In this EXTENDED interview, Anne talks with him about that get-rich scheme...

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Julian Barnes talks about “England, England.”  It’s his latest novel, in which all the tourist attractions of England (Stonehenge, the Tower of London, the Royal Family) are recreated in one theme park.

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Joel Kotkin tells Anne Strainchamps how the power of e-commerce is changing where and how we live.  He says that knowledge workers choose to live in nerdistans and valhallas.

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In “The Hunt for Zero Point” Nick Cook writes about the secret world of research into anti-gravity technology.

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"See them before they're gone" is the Lanza family's motto.  Michael Lanza describes his quest to take his two young kids -- ages 7 and 9 -- to as many wilderness locations as possible, to see glaciers and icebergs and coral reefs, before climate change destroys them.

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