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Nancy's Bookshelf: Chico authors with global settings

By Nancy Wiegman,
Matt Fidler
Published January 22, 2025 at 1:58 PM PST

Chico author and screenwriter Philip Midling’s debut novel Spiderland is a World War II mystery/thriller set in Germany.

Chico writer, photographer and cemetery expert Douglas Keister’s 48th book, Phaedra, is an illustrated novel that takes place in the famous Père-Lachaise cemetery in Paris.

Episode #766

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Nancy Wiegman
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.
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Matt Fidler
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.
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