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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jeff Price founded TuneCore, where artists pay a one time flat fee to use his service and then all sales revenue belongs to them and they retain all rights to their music.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

What happens when you discover racial fear in yourself? Rachel Shadoan recently reached an uncomfortable conclusion: she was afraid of black men. Rachel was appalled and decided to do something about it. She tells her story in an article titled, "I am racist and so are you."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Natasha Trethewey reads Photography, October 1911.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Paul Hegarty is a lecturer in Philosophy and Visual Culture at University College Cork in Ireland. He's also really into Noise/Music and is the author of "Noise/Music: A History."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Nick Flynn is the author of a memoir of his complex relationship with his father, who showed up as a client at the homeless shelter where Nick was working.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Richard Sennett makes the case that our definition of craft should be expanded to include any job a person commits to executing to the best of their abilities.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

August is Ghost Month in Taiwan—a time to commemorate the dead: burn incense, visit shrines, honor ancestors, and avoid large purchases.  It's also the setting for Ed Lin's newest mystery.  Lin is a 3-time winner of the Asian-American Literary Award. 

 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

For several days, Robert Olen Butler had a video camera trained on his desk and invited people to watch him write on-line. Butler says the Internet will create new art forms.

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