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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Judith Farr tells Jim Fleming that Emily Dickinson had several gardens and a conservatory and wrote about flowers in her poems and in her letters.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Naif Al-Mutawa is the Creator of "The 99," a comic book series featuring a group of superheroes, each of whom derives a power from one of the 99 attributes of Allah.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

John Balaban performed alternative service in Vietnam during the war there. While helping children injured in the fighting, he grew to love the traditional sung poetry of rural Vietnam.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Biologist Renee Askins tells Anne Strainchamps why she is passionate about wolves, and why she was determined to re-introduce wolves to Yellowstone National Park.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Paul Auster is a director, screen-writer and novelist. He talks about dealing with moments of doubt while writing fiction.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Nicholas Carr recommends John Edward Huth's 2013 book, "The Lost Art of Finding Our Way," about how to use the natural world to navigate. 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

What if Karl Marx were alive today and came back for a visit?  That's the premise of the one-man show "Marx in Soho," starring Brian Jones and written by the late historian Howard Zinn.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Peter Carey's  novel "True History of The Kelly Gang" has been described as "a spectacular feat of literary ventriloquism."  Carey tells Steve Paulson that's because he wrote the book in another voice.

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