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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Chicago May was a 19th century Irish immigrant who became a con-woman and crook instead of a maid or factory worker.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jessica Helfand tells Jim Fleming that people constructed unique personal narratives out of whatever materials were at hand, long before there was a scrapbooking business to help them.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Laura Blumenfeld wrote a book called “Revenge: A Story of Hope.” It recounts how she went to Jerusalem and sought out the family of the Palestinian man who shot her tourist father.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Kevin Dutton talks about his book, "The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Robert Kull chose to live completely alone off the coast of Chile for a year. He tells Anne Strainchamps the hardest part was the mental challenges he faced, not the weather or coping with his prosthetic leg.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Lydia Millet tells Steve Paulson that she lives in the middle of a national park outside Tucson, Arizona, and is always mindful that she is encroaching on the space of the wild creatures when she drives her car.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Stand-up comic Marc Maron compiled a one-man show based on his 1998 trip to Israel. The companion book is called "The Jerusalem Syndrome: My Life as a Reluctant Messiah." Maron tells Steve Paulson about the trip and performs excerpts from the show.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Rahna Reiko Rizzuto was unclear how to elicit the stories of Hiroshima survivors. And then September 11th happened.

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