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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Canadian novelist Sheila Heti talks about her new novel, "How Should a Person Be?" It's fiction, but the characters are real people -- they seem to be Sheila herself and her friends.  Some of the dialogue is from actual conversations she transcribed.  So what is this thing?

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Bryan Palmer tells Steve Paulson how some population groups, from enslaved Africans to religious heretics, jazz musicians, and homosexuals have found refuge and freedom in the night.

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Erin Clune brings us and her family to tour the garden of Izzy Fine and Mary Gray who've planted thousands of flowering bulbs on their property in Madison, Wisconsin. Their garden is so spectacular, all the neighbors drop by to wander around.

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Dilshad Ali talks about reading the Christian-influenced Narnia tales to her children.

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Historian and president of Harvard University, Drew Gilpin Faust tells Steve Paulson that Civil War deaths consumed the entire nation with grief and transformed America in many ways.

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Art Spiegelman's new book is “In the Shadow of No Towers” in which he recounts his very personal response to 9-11. 

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Catherine Boldt is one of The Gimpy Girls.  Their mission is to make life easier, safer and more fun for gimpy people everywhere.

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What makes Cuban music so distinctive? Radio host Jonathan Overby describes its history, which blends African rhythms with Spanish elegance.

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