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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Videographer Frank Boll is satisfied with only a few seconds of good wolf footage in his series "Wolves in Wisconsin". He talks about what it took to get that much.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Theoretical physicist Marco Gleiser's Dangerous Idea?  We matter.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Eddie Lenihan is the author of “The Other Crowd,” a book about the tradition of fairies in Ireland.  From his home in County Clare, he says that Irish fairies are violent and dangerous and that people believe in them still.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

David Shields talks with Anne Strainchamps about his book, which is a meditation on how our bodies decay and die, and his irrepressible father who is 97 and who doesn't give death the time of day.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Film critic & scholar Emanuel Levy grew up on the movies.  In Israel they had no television and so his parents would take him to the movies once or twice a week.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Charles Baxter and Richard Bausch are both successful American writers and good friends.  They talk with Steve Paulson about the pitfalls and perils of doing book tours. 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Derick Burleson won the Felix Pollack Prize for his collection of poems about Rwanda, called "Ejo."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Faith Adiele flunked out of Harvard and went to Thailand to study languages. There, she became the first ordained Black Buddhist Nun.

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