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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Salman Rushdie tells Steve Paulson about his very first memories of "The Wizard of Oz."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Todd Boyd tells Anne Strainchamps it's time for the Black Community to let go of the dusty lessons of the Civil Rights Movement and embrace the ideals of hip hop.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Susan Hirschmann is a legendary children's book editor and founder of Greenwillow Books.

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TTBOOK Technical Director Caryl Owen invites listeners to remix the TTBOOK theme music.

If you want to give it a whirl, the most important instruction is: please submit your remix as a 16bit, 44.1K (CD standard) .wav file. Mp3s won't work! 

You can download files here and drop your remixes here.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

William Christenberry never intended to cross the path of the pain of others with his photos. He takes photos of simple buildings, mostly in Hale County, Alabama.

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Nina Simone's powerful voice and turbulent life are the subjects of an Oscar-nominated documentary, a new biography and a forthcoming Hollywood biopic.  But it's her politics that speaks most forcefully to a new generation of African American activists.  Biographer Alan Light talks about the incandescent soul singer and Black Power icon.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Terry Tempest Williams has spent much of her life trying to understand her mother - both a  private woman and a trickster.  Her memoir is also an exploration of silence and finding one's voice.

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Siva Vaidhyanathan is the author of “Copyrights and Copywrongs.” He talks with Jim Fleming about the history of copyright and says it was intended to preserve future creativity. 

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