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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Ryan Boudinot talks to Jim Fleming about his post-apocalyptic novel, "Blueprints of the Afterlife."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

William Staples tells Steve Paulson about the latest in psychographics and biometrics and why civil libertarians are worried. 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Ron Chernow's recently published "George Washington: a life" logs in at 900 pages, one of the most acclaimed historical biographies of the past year.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Trevor Paglan is the author of "I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have To Be Destroyed By Me." That's the Latin translation of a patch designed for a top secret Navy air testing station.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Steve Paulson talks with writers and editors about the enduring influence of Vladimir Nabokov's novel "Lolita."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Why aren't there more realistic portrayals of scientists in literary fiction?  Cell biologist and novelist Jennifer Rohn founded LabLit.com, a website that's at the center of the new movement calling for more and better science in fiction. 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Shaun Alexander tells Steve Paulson what chess does for him and why he thinks it’s good for inner city youth.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Some of the greatest trips give us that feeling of traveling back in time. Last summer, Aubrey Ralph did nearly that, when he spent nine days sailing aboard a 200 year old tall ship, across two Great Lakes. He was with the reconstructed U.S. Brig Niagara as she shoved off from her home port in Erie, PA.

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