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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Novelist Arthur Phillips is the author of "The Tragedy of Arthur." The book tells the story of a fictional character, also named Arthur Phillips, whose family finds a lost Shakespeare play.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Colby Buzzell is an Iraq War veteran whose blog and book is called "My War," and he tells Anne Strainchamps why he joined up and how he got past the drug test.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Peter Edelman's Dangerous Idea?   Putting people to work doing things we need done.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

David Thorpe is a filmmaker who went in search of his voice. Specifically, he wanted to know why he and many other gay men ended up markers of a "gay voice"—one with precise enunciation and sibilant "s" sounds. He spoke with his family and several speech therapists to better understand, control, and inhabit his voice.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

David Plotz is the editor of Slate Magazine (slate.com) and the author of "Good Book."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Writer Elizabeth Royte spent some time on Panama’s Barro Colorado Island, the best-studied rainforest in the world.  She describes some of the naturalists she met and their work in her book “The Tapir’s Morning Bath.”

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Charles R. Cross on the Young Fresh Fellows album “The Fabulous Sounds of the Pacific Northwest.”

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

It sometimes seems as though everyone has read "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" and the books that followed. The author, Stieg Larsson, died before he could tell the stories behind the books. Now his companion of more than 30 years, Eva Gabrielsson, has written about the man and his work. In this NEW and UNCUT interview she tells Jim Fleming about the books and her life with Stieg Larsson.

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