Nancy's Bookshelf

Nancy's Bookshelf: Author Paul Belz takes a stroll through Bidwell Park

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Chico author Paul Belz shares personal reflections and casual conversations about Chico’s crown jewel, Bidwell Park.

Paul Belz has been a Chico resident since 2016. His poetry, nature writing, travel-based essays, and articles about education appear in a range of publications, and he recently published Sometimes the Soul Needs Chocolate: Pandemic Odes in September 2023.

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Nancy Wiegman has a master's degree in French linguistics from Indiana University and taught yoga and foreign languages at CSU Fresno and the College of Charleston before moving to Chico in 1990.
Matt Fidler is a producer and sound designer with over 15 years’ experience producing nationally distributed public radio programs. He has worked for shows such as Freakonomics Radio, Selected Shorts, Studio 360, The New Yorker Radio Hour and The Takeaway. In 2017, Matt launched the language podcast Very Bad Words, hitting the #28 spot in the iTunes podcast charts.