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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Louise Brown tells Anne Strainchamps that the traditional culture of prostitution is related to the performing arts in Pakistan but that it is being replaced by a sex industry.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Ken Nordine recites his word poem "yellow".

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Rachel Naomi Remen tells Steve Paulson it’s important to treat the whole person, not just the disease and says she has no idea what happens at the end of life.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Acclaimed novelist Martin Amis talks about growing up as the son of another famous novelist — Kingsley Amis.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Steve Paulson talks with Jerry Huffman, a reporter and anchor for Wisconsin Public Television, about the best recent books that try to make sense of the Post Cold War World.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Sonic Youth co-founder Kim Gordon’s new memoir, “Girl in a Band,” is on our minds this week. The book chronicles the influential band’s career and the end of the marriage between Gordon and fellow co-founder Thurston Moore after 27 years.

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Michael Ondaatje's new novel tells the tale of an eleven year old boy who traveled on board The Oronsay from Ceylon to England in 1952.  Michael Ondaatje traveled on board The Oronsay from Ceylong to England in 1952, when he was eleven years old.  In this uncut interview he tells Jim Fleming that while one story informs the other, they are not the same.

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Meghan O'Rourke wonders if there's a better way to be bereaved in an essay called "Good Grief" which recently appeared in the New Yorker.

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