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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Danny Wallace is the author of “Join Me.”  He’s also the leader of a cult of the same name.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Listen in on this UNCUT interview from the Into the Woods show. He tells Jim Fleming about what twigs have to teach us about climate change, and the poetry of the forest. 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

David Rieff has written a sobering account of his mother's last days. It's called "Swimming in a Sea of Death," and tells how he tried to do the right thing by his mother - Susan Sontag - while also being true to himself.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Donald Kraybill tells Steve Paulson that Amish attitudes towards technology are nuanced and complex.  He says they prefer to think through the implications of new technology before they adopt it.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Denis Kitchen founded Kitchen Sink Press in 1969, and he was the publisher who brought Eisner's work to the public.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Walter Kirn bookmarks "The Dog of the South" by Charles Portis.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Eddy Joe Cotton has been riding the rails for almost a decade. He tells Steve Paulson that the a hobo spends most of his life waiting for one of three things: a bottle, love and the next freight.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Anne here. My conversation with Turkish writer Elif Şafak back in April still sticks with me as the year comes to a close. In many parts of the world, 2016 was the year of the populist leader—especially in Turkey, where Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan launched a crackdown on free speech and all forms of opposition. 120 journalists have been jailed, more than 2,000 academics have been dismissed from universities, and more than 100,000 public workers have been fired. How did Turkey—once a model of new democratic nations—become such a different place? Not only did Şafak see this coming, she warned that the West should not consider itself immune. 

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