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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Can you learn to be more creative?  You can if you go to Lynda Barry's workshop on "writing the unthinkable." 

You can also listen to the EXTENDED interview, and read the extended transcript.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

For years, Paul Ewald's been trying to convince people that cancer is caused by germs, not genes.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Michael Pollan tells Judith Strasser where the American front lawn came from, and what it has come to symbolize.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

April is National Poetry Month and we’re celebrating with a collection of interviews with major American poets.  Today, Charles Monroe-Kane talks with Pulitzer-prize winning poet Rae Armantrout.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Natasha Trethewey reads Photography, October 1911.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Feminist film critic Molly Haskell talks about how Hollywood has treated the subject of writer’s block, and we hear clips from “Adaptation” and “Barton Fink.”

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Mary Wells Lawrence thought up some of the most clever and memorable ad campaigns of her generation. Her memoir is “A Big Life in Advertising.”

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jane Juska tells Anne Strainchamps why, at the age of 66, she took out an ad in the NY Review of Books looking for as many sexual partners as possible.

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