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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Novelist Mark Salzman talks about his experience teaching creative writing at Central Juvenile Hall in Los Angeles, a detention center for L.A.’s most serious young offenders.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Paula Kamen has had the same headache for 14 years. Her book is “All in My Head: An Epic Quest to Cure an Unrelenting, Totally Unreasonable, and Only Slightly Enlightening Headache.”

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Kevin Sheppard on playing basketball in Iran.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Joyce Tenneson is a portrait photographer whose new book is a collection of flower photos. Her work celebrates flowers at every stage of their life cycle.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Norwegian jazz musician Kristin Asbjorsen has turned Bukowski’s poetry into music for a film version of his novel “Factotum.”

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Novelist Joanna Trollope reads from "Second Honeymoon" and talks about why the empty nest syndrome is particularly difficult for women.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Ray Kurzweil believes we'll soon have tiny computers embedded in our brains.  He says we're on the verge of a new era in evolution - a fusion of biology and machine technology.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

What made Lincoln a great president?  Was he a closet racist?  We hear short interviews with Lincoln historians Doris Kearns Goodwin, Orville Vernon Burton and John Stauffer.

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