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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Mark Cain is the author of "Boomer at Midlife." He talks with Jim Fleming about being a boomer and the novel he wrote about it.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Writer Michael Perry talks with Anne Strainchamps about his life combining writing with the new "back to the land" movement...

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jeanne Birdsall began writing at age 41. Her first novel became an instant classic.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

If traditional religion has lost its luster, where do you find sacred experiences?  Anthropologist Erik Davis goes looking around the edges of contemporary culture - from Burning Man and trance music to psychedelics.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Mary Lefkowitz is the author of “Greek Gods, Human Lives: What We Can Learn from Myths.”  She says that the Greek gods seem too much like us to impress most modern people.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Natalie Goldberg tells Jim Fleming that people who want to become writers should just write, and find themselves a writing mentor.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jill Gusman is a chef and the author of “Vegetables from the Sea: Everyday Cooking with Sea Greens.”  She gives Anne Strainchamps some of her favorite seaweed recipes.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Novelists have always mined their own lives for inspiration. But no ever's gone quite as far as Karl Ove Knausgaard.  People call him the Norwegian Proust.  He recently came out with the sixth volume of his autobiographical novel, "My Struggle." What's remarkable about Knausgaard is not just that he's telling the story of his life as a novel.  It's the incredible level of detail.

 

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