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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Poet Frances Richey calls her latest collection "The Warrior – A Mother's Story of a Son at War."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Deborah Treisman is fiction editor of The New Yorker magazine. George Saunders is one of her star writers. Treisman and Saunders join Steve Paulson to talk about writing and publishing short stories.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

The Silk Road was once the great meeting place between the East and the West - a network of ancient trading routes winding through China and India, across Central Asia and Iran to the Mediterranean.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

David George Gordon tells Jim Fleming cicadas outnumber human beings two hundred thousand to one, so we have to do something to even the odds. Why not eat them?

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Essayist Beverly Lapp explains what "The Star Spangled Banner" means to her as a Mennonite.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

New York Times reporter Chris Hedges was a war correspondent for 15 years. He talks about why war is addictive and describes the sort of scenes that left him with post traumatic stress disorder.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Author and physician Atul Gawande recommends "My Struggle" by Karl Ove Knausgaard.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Dan Everett went to the Amazon as a young Christian missionary and became captivated by the Indian people he'd come to convert and their totally unknown language.

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