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Russian classical pianist Lera Auerbach discuses her lifelong fear of time with Jim Fleming.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Suppose you drank too much at that party last night and some embarrassing pictures of you got posted on Facebook. Do you have a right to delete them? In Europe, you now have that legal right. But Georgetown University's Meg Jones says Americans are still sorting out conflicting demands for privacy and free speech in the digital age.

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Paul Auster is a director, screen-writer and novelist. He talks about dealing with moments of doubt while writing fiction.

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Jason Pfaff wants to eat in every single Denny’s.  He’s made it to a few hundred so far.

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In this UNCUT interview, Pico Iyer tells Jim Fleming about his obsession with novelist Graham Greene. That obsession is also the subject of Iyer's new book, "The Man Within My Head".

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Anthropologist Jeremy Narby went to the Peruvian Amazon to study the Ashaninca Indians.  The experience transformed his outlook on life, especially once he tried their powerful hallucinogen ayahuasca. 

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Lisa Tucker’s latest novel is “Shout Down the Moon.”  She talks with Jim Fleming about the role of social class in her work.

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What's it like to win a MacArthur "genius" award?  Fiction writer Karen Rusell tells Anne Strainchamps about the day she heard the news, and talks about her special blend of fantasy and realism in her short stories.

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