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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

In this extended interview, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Dan Fagin discusses "Toms River" — his remarkable investigative story of industrial pollution in a New Jersey town — and why it's so difficult to prove the link between environmental toxins and cancer clusters.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Mary Ann Caws is an internationally respected scholar of surrealism. She has translated many of the movements major texts and is the editor of “Surrealism (Themes and Movements).”

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Mark Dunn's book, “Ella Minnow Pea,” explores what happens when individual letters begin to be expunged from the language. It’s a technical tour de force since the author labors under the same restrictions as his characters.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Paul Ekman tells Jim Fleming about different kinds of lies, and the physical signs that signal deceit.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Peter Doyle is the author of "Echo and Reverb: Fabricating Space in Popular Music Recording, 1900-1960."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson is the author of more than a dozen books, most recently “The Pig Who Sang to the Moon.”  He says that farm animals have rich, complex emotional lives.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Robert Leleux talks about growing up gay, in Texas, with his plastic surgery junkie and drama queen of a mother, whom he adores and who is accompanying him on his book tour.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Natasha Trethewey reads Photography, October 1911.

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