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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Robert Ellis Orrall is a musician who lives in Nashville, on the same street where Al Gore bought a house.  So he wrote a song about it!

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Classical pianist Leon Fleisher tells Jim Fleming about the neurological disorder that crippled his right hand for over thirty years and what it meant for his musicianship.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

If you like novels about computers and the history of technology, then you must know Neal Stephenson's work.  The author of Cryptonomicon and The Baroque Cycle talks with us about his new novel -- a fast-paced thriller about the world of hyper-gaming.  It's called "Reamde."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Nicholson Baker's latest novel is called "The Anthologist." Baker tells Anne Strainchamps the book's about a writer who longs to be a poet.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Neuro-scientist  Robert Provine, author of “Laughter: A Scientific Investigation,” tells Steve Paulson about a two year laughing jag in Tanzania.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

What exactly happens in the brain when you “decide” to do something?

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Orhan Pamuk is Turkey’s most famous writer and a cultural ambassador for Turkey around the world.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Nobody writes a dystopia quite the way Margaret Atwood does. In this EXTENDED conversation about MaddAddam - and a whole lot more - Atwood talks about utopia and dystopia, and the inherent optimism of all authors.

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