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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Luke Rhinehart's novel, “The Dice Man", involves a psychiatrist who opens his life to new possibilities by basing his actions on a throw of the diced.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Pierre Ferrari is one of the founders of TeamX, a clothing company with a social conscience.  He tells Jim Fleming that the company limits executive salaries to eight times the salary of the lowest paid worker.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Physicist Janna Levin tells Steve Paulson why she wanted to write about mathematicians Alan Turing and Kurt Godel, and why her book is a novel.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jonathan Lethem's new novel is "Chronic City." The book has been described as a cross between the famous borough-centric New Yorker cartoon and the darkest episode of "Seinfeld."

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Travel writer Tony Perrotet has spent his career traveling all over the globe, but he skipped the Mediterranean tour, choosing Tierra del Fuego or the Amazon over Rome. But the discovery of an ancient guide book launched him on his most exotic journey yet, in the footsteps of the Ancients.

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Novelist Jennifer Egan talks with Jim Fleming about the middle eastern terrorist at the heart of her novel “Look at Me,” and how she reacted to the events of September 11th.

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In Laura Poitras's film "My Country, My Country" she shoots in cinema verite style and based her film on the actions of an Iranian physician and his family around the recent Iranian election.

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Julian Barnes' novel "The Sense of an Ending" won the 2011 Man Booker Prize.  Barnes talks with Steve Paulson about the complications of memory, aging and moral reckoning.

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