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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Lee Ernst has played John Barrymore several times in a play about the actor by William Luce.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Neil Steinberg booked passage to Italy for both him and his father on his father’s old ship. He hoped it would bring them closer together. As he tells Anne Strainchamps, it didn’t.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Novelist Jane Hamilton talks with Steve Paulson about the role of nostalgia in literary fiction.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jonathan Wilson's novel takes place in 1924 and he explains why many fundamentalist Jews of that period were anti-Zionist.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

James McBride won the National Book Award for "The Good Lord Bird," his novel about the abolitionist John Brown.  He explains why he doesn't like most fictional portraits of slavery and how he tried to tell a different story.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Linda Kauffman talks with Jim Fleming about artists who make deliberately provocative and sensational art.  She feels it’s a good thing to challenge our beliefs about what can be seen.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

When Katy Butler's aging father got a pacemaker, his life slid into dementia, incontinence and misery. Katy talks about choosing care over cure.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

MP3 formatting compresses audio so that the file becomes 75 to 95 percent smaller. But what are we missing?

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