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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Linda Kauffman talks with Jim Fleming about artists who make deliberately provocative and sensational art.  She feels it’s a good thing to challenge our beliefs about what can be seen.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Novelist Jane Hamilton talks with Steve Paulson about the role of nostalgia in literary fiction.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Sometimes when musicians break the mold, they end up creating new genres. Richard Hell didn't study music as a kid, but he loved how rock and roll let him experiment with self-expression.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

So romance is about attraction, about intimacy, and sometimes about sex. Sometimes, it's also about love. And love is all around.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Many things can evoke a memory. Like a smell. Or a touch. When Mamek Khadem wanted to evoke the memory of her native Iran during the Islamic revolution in 1979, she did it with music. 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Environmentalist Bill McKibben believes it's time for a new environmental paradigm:  small and local.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Chang's new novel follows the lives of students and one particular professor in a creative writing program in the Midwest.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jonatha Brooke is a singer and songwriter who was invited by Woody Guthrie's daughter to visit her famous father's archives and use some of his unpublished material. The result is an album called "The Works."

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