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June 22nd, 1977. Two college women are camping. A man runs over their tent in a pickup truck. Then he attacks the women with an axe. Fifteen years later, one of the women returns to central Oregon to try to solve the crime. In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge, Terri Jentz shares her story.
SEGMENT 1:
Robert Pinsky reads an excerpt from his book-length poem "An Explanation of America." Then, Terri Jentz, referred to in the poem, and the author of "Strange Piece of Paradise: A Return to the American West to Investigate My Attempted Murder - and Solve the Riddle of Myself," talks with Anne Strainchamps. Jentz describes her attack and the man who she believes is her attacker and explains why closure doesn't replace justice.
SEGMENT 2:
Jason Roberts is the author of "A Sense of the World: How A Blind Man Became History's Greatest Traveler." Roberts tells Anne Strainchamps about James Holman, who traveled all over the world in the nineteenth century and wrote travel books, despite being blind. Robert Sullivan has driven across the United States some thirty times. His book is "Cross Country: Fifteen Years and Ninety Thousand Miles on the Roads and Interstates of America with Lewis and Clark, a Lot of Bad Motels, a Moving Van, Emily Post, Jack Kerouac, My Wife, My Moth-in-Law, Two Kids, and enough Coffee to Kill an Elephant." He tells Jim Fleming how he does it, and what happened on the worst trip ever.
SEGMENT 3:
Daniel Kalder is from Scotland, but lived in Russia for several years and discovered that at heart he's an anti-tourist. So now he's written "Lost Cosmonaut: Observations of an Anti-Tourist." He explains to Jim Fleming what that means and describes some of the highlights of an anti-tourist's tour of the former Soviet Union.
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Books:
| Terri Jentz, Strange Piece of Paradise: A Return to the American West to Investigate My Attempted Murder -- And Solve the Riddle of Myself (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) |  |
| Daniel Kalder, Lost Cosmonaut: Observations of an Anti-Tourist (Scribner) |
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| Jason Roberts, A Sense of the World: How A Blind Man Became History's Greatest Traveler (HarperCollins) |  |
| Robert Sullivan, Cross Country: Fifteen Years and Ninety Thousand Miles on the Roads and Interstates of America with Lewis and Clark, a Lot of Bad Motels, a Moving Van, Emily Post, Jack Kerouac, My Wife, My Mother-in-Law, Two Kids, and Enough Coffee to Kill an Elephant (Bloomsbury) |  |
Websites:
- -- Terri Jentz/"Strange Piece
of Paradise"
http://www.strangepieceofparadise.com/
- -- Jason Roberts
http://www.jasonroberts.net/
- -- Robert Sullivan/"Cross Country"
http://tinyurl.com/jdbdb
- -- Daniel Kalder
http://www.danielkalder.com/ - -- Robert Pinsky reading an excerpt from his poem,
"An Explanation
of America"
from the book, "An Explanation of America" by Robert Pinsky
copyright (c) 1979 by Princeton University Press
courtesy of "All Things Considered" and National Public Radio
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5551502
http://www.npr.org/
Music:
- -- "End Title: Theme from
Focus"/Mark Adler
from the CD, "Focus: Original Score" (Milan Entertainment/BMG)
http://www.milanrecords.com/index.php
- -- "Reve Charmant -- Nocturne"/John Davis
from the CD, "John Davis Plays Blind Tom" (Newport Classic, Ltd.)
http://www.newport-cd.com/
- -- "Forty Miles of Bad Road"/Duane Eddy
from the the two-CD set, "Twang Thang: The Duane Eddy Anthology" (Rhino)
http://www.rhino.com/store/ProductDetail.lasso?Number=71223
- -- "Road to Nowhere"/Talking Heads
from the CD, "Little Creatures" (Sire)
http://www.talking-heads.net/
Distribution dates:
| week of 12/23/2007
- hour 2 week of 08/13/2006 - hour 1 |
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