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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Judith Farr tells Jim Fleming that Emily Dickinson had several gardens and a conservatory and wrote about flowers in her poems and in her letters.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

The President shouldn't rely on his science advisors to explain what a dirty bomb is or why clean coal is important.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Novelist Michael Ondaatje met film editor Walter Murch during the filming of Ondaatje’s Booker Prize winning “The English Patient.”  Their conversations matured into a book: “The Conversation: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film.”

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Mitch Cantor is the founder of Gadfly Records, and dedicated to spreading the word about obscure, unique and offbeat projects.  Cantor tells Steve Paulson about some of the artists he records.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Best-selling author Jane Hamilton has the kind of success most novelists dream of.  In her novel “Disobedience,” a teenage son discovers that his mom is cheating on his dad.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Robert Gottlieb and Robert Kimball tell Steve Paulson what makes a lyric work and that many of the great songs came from Broadway and Hollywood musicals.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

What if Karl Marx were alive today and came back for a visit?  That's the premise of the one-man show "Marx in Soho," starring Brian Jones and written by the late historian Howard Zinn.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Peter Carey's  novel "True History of The Kelly Gang" has been described as "a spectacular feat of literary ventriloquism."  Carey tells Steve Paulson that's because he wrote the book in another voice.

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