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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Doris Kearns Goodwin talks with Jim Fleming about the political genius of the man she considers America's greatest President.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Edward Castronova talks to Jim Fleming about M.M.O.R.P.G.'s, "Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Poet Edward Hirsch bookmarks Alice Oswald's "Memorial: A Version of Homer's Iliad."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

What role does sound play in Franz Kafka's fiction?

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Eric Lax has had regular conversations with Woody Allen over the past 36 years which he's turned into a book called "Conversations with Woody Allen: His Films, the Movies and Moviemaking."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

David Whyte tells Anne Strainchamps there’s always a way to find meaning at work.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Mary Walsh has made a career out of comedy. Still, she's not quite sure she's funny. 

Listen in as she talks about political humor, sketch comedy and why it might be easier for outsiders to find funny.

Looking for a clip of her in action? Here it is.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

If you had to pick one writer, one poet, who has persistently reminded us of the connection between inner and outer landscapes it would be Terry Tempest Williams. She's advocated again and again for the preservation of wild places and the importance of national wilderness through books like “Refuge,” “Desert Quartet,” “Finding Beauty in a Broken World” and “When Women Were Birds.” She'll soon be releasing a new book -- “The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks.”

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