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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

David Sterritt talks with Jim Fleming about Jean-Luc Godard's film "Weekend" and we hear clips.

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John Waters recommends "The Complete Short Stories of James Purdy."

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Diana Athill was the editor of some of the most celebrated writers of our time, including John Updike, Simone de Beauvoir, and V.S. Naipaul.

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In Connie Willis' world, historians can actually go to the past to study.

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Brian Smith tells Jim about his family’s “Recycled Christmas.” None of the gifts could be new, and the only gift wrap allowed was old newspaper. He says that Christmas was one of his best ever.

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Jon Ronson's Dangerous Idea -- Can Too Much Christmas Drive Kids to Kill?

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Nobel Prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman is fascinated by the way memory shapes our sense of self. In this EXTENDED interview, he says our memories can be quite different from what we actually experience.

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If you’re old enough, you’ll remember the Monkees, the pop group with a hit TV show. Michael Nesmith wore the green stocking cap. Since then, he’s reinvented his career several times over. He (sort of) invented country rock. And the music video.

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