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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Nicholson Baker talks about his new novel, "House of Holes: A Book of Raunch," which is set in a sexual theme park.

Nicholson Baker's "House of Holes" page on Simon and Schuster's website

 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Writer Michael Pollan tells Steve Paulson that a lot of what's on supermarket shelves isn't food and that Americans have many options if they want to improve the quality of their diet.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jill Bolte Taylor is a Harvard trained brain scientist who suffered a devastating stroke and describes the event and her long struggle to recover in her book, "My Stroke of Insight."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Laura Miller tells Anne Strainchamps why she thinks Stephanie Meyers' "Twilight" books are such a phenomenal success with young women, even though the lead female character is so lacking in gifts or accomplishments.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

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...

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Lewis Buzbee has spent his life besotted with books. He's sold them, and now he writes them.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

The clay tablets found at the Greek palace of Knossos had one of the strangest languages ever discovered.  Margalit Fox tells the story of Linear B - and the obsessed, tragic lives of the two people who devoted their lives to cracking the code.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Novelist Jonathan Lethem talks about the work of Philip K. Dick.  Dick is one of Lethem's literary heroes.

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