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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Economist Juliet Schor co-founded The Center for a New American Dream.  Among her many proposals to fix the economy:  create more jobs by adopting a 30-hour work week and 3-day weekend.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jane Hamilton tells Anne Strainchamps the inspiration for her latest book came when she was teaching a writing workshop on a cruise ship.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jim Fadiman is one of the original psychonauts – a friend of Richard Alpert and Ken Kesey in the Sixties – who went on to do pioneering research on psychedelics and creativity, and helped found the transpersonal psychology movement. In this EXTENDED interview, Steve Paulson talks with Fadiman about a lifetime of unconventional thinking.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Pat Willard is the author of “Secrets of Saffron.”  She tells Steve Paulson how you harvest saffron and why it’s more than a flavoring.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Thomas Louis Hardin is an internationally known and respected composer known for decades to New Yorkers as an eccentric street performer who dressed as a Viking and called himself "Moondog." Robert Scotto wrote his biography.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jay Parini is a poet, novelist and teacher. He's also the author of "Promised Land: Thirteen Books That Changed America." He tells Jim Fleming that his is not a list of "great books" but rather books that significantly changed the literary climate of American culture.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jonathan Cott describes what it was like to re-invent himself after E.C.T. (Electroconvulsive Therapy) treatments created a fifteen year gap in his memory.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Paula Wolfert is one of America’s most admired food writers. Her latest cook book is “The Slow Mediterranean Kitchen.”

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