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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Kelley Eskridge is a fiction writer, essayist and screenwriter. Her latest collection of short stories is called "Dangerous Space." Three of the stories feature a compelling character named Mars whose gender is never revealed.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Richard Rodriguez tells Steve Paulson why he celebrates being brown and says Hispanics are the first minority to self-identity by culture rather than race.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Richard Harwood talks with Anne Strainchamps about the quality of authenticity as the public perceives it in politicians.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Mario Vargas Llosa is one of the godfathers of Latin American writing.  His novel “The Feast of the Goat” deals with the Dominican Republic under the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

How has English become Globish?

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

 It’s time for you to meet the next wave of African fiction and our guest has compiled their writing together in the book “Africa39” – an anthology of 39 African writers under the age of 39.

 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Laila Lalami tells Jim Fleming that Muslim women are trapped between two competing world views, neither of which knows how to help them or asks them what they want for themselves.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jan Louter is a Dutch film director. The PBS series Independent Lens just aired his piece “A Sad Flower in the Sand” about novelist John Fante. Fante wrote a 1939 novel called “Ask the Dust” ...

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