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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Nicholson Baker talks about his new novel, "House of Holes: A Book of Raunch," which is set in a sexual theme park.

Nicholson Baker's "House of Holes" page on Simon and Schuster's website

 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Joe Garden is features editor at the satirical newspaper, "The Onion."  He tells Jim Fleming the campaign season was a great one for comedy, but it went on way too long.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Writer and cartoonist Lynda Barry is an outspoken left-wing intellectual with an urban sensibility who now lives off the grid in rural Wisconsin.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Kevin Kelly tells Jim Fleming that the sum total of our technology - what he calls “the technicum” - is taking on the properties of life itself.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Intrepid TTBOOK intern John Pederson visits local bee keeper Mary Seeley as she's setting up some new hives.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

John Pollack collected well over a hundred thousand wine corks and used them to build a replica of a Viking ship which he then sailed in Portugal.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Novelist Jane Hamilton and her husband grow and sell apples on their farm in Wisconsin...

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Neurologist Oliver Sacks is famous for his stories of people with brain disorders.  In his book "Musicophilia," he writes about people who were transformed by music. 

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