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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Kate Lebo is The Pie Poet.  She runs a pastry academy and writer's studio called The Pie School, She's published poetry about pies and a pie cookbook.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Novelist Jonathan Lethem talks about the work of Philip K. Dick.  Dick is one of Lethem's literary heroes.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Kathleen Dean Moore is a philosopher at Oregon State University, but her passion is an inhospitable island off the coast of Alaska. On Pine Island you can expect rain, fog, desolation, and a world of beauty that comes from the reality of natural surroundings.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Afghan-American author Nadia Hashimi talks about her book, “The Pearl That Broke Its Shell,” as well as the Afghan custom of Bacha Posh – in which a girl is allowed to dress as a boy.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jane Yolen likes to re-invent the stories about King Arthur.  In her version, it’s Guinevere who first pulls the sword from the stone!

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Paul Ekman tells Jim Fleming about different kinds of lies, and the physical signs that signal deceit.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson is the author of more than a dozen books, most recently “The Pig Who Sang to the Moon.”  He says that farm animals have rich, complex emotional lives.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Rajiv Joseph is a New York playwright. He tells Jim Fleming he wrote “Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo” based on a small newspaper story...

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