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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Psychologist Judith Wallerstein talks with Jim Fleming about the frightening findings from her 25 year study on children of divorce.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

We have a new Poet Laureate here in the U.S. Listen in as Natasha Trethewey talks about the history and memory embedded in her work.

You can hear more of Trethewey's poems here.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Melissa Fay Greene provides a profile of the AIDS orphans of Ethiopia and one remarkable woman who saved dozens by opening her home to them after the death of her adult daughter from AIDS.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

British novelist Nick Hornby has written a funny book about suicide.  It's called "A Long Way Down."

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Peter Guralnick has written a prize-winning two part biography of Elvis Presley. Now he's tackled Sam Cooke.

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Michael Ruhlman is the author of “Wooden Boats: In Pursuit of the Perfect Craft at an American Boatyard.”  He says that wooden boats are alive and have souls.

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David Rothenberg has played music with birds and even whales. But his latest music project is much less, well, melodious…

 . . . like playing music with insects. He’s recorded songs with a lot of them -- crickets and cicadas and yes, even mosquitoes.

Producer Craig Eley sat down with David Rothenberg to talk “bug music.”

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Jeff Ferrell gave up life as a tenured professor and became a dumpster diver. His new book is "Empire of Scrounge."

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