Nancy's Bookshelf: Four decades in broadcast + a trip to Italy

By Nancy Wiegman,

Published August 5, 2026 at 2:42 PM PDT

In a rebroadcast interview from thirteen years ago, Nancy’s Bookshelf honors NPR correspondent Don Gonyea’s forty-year career following his recent retirement.

Also, Corning author Charles E. Rouse discusses his new book, which blends a coming-of-age narrative with a travel memoir of Assisi and an original philosophical essay.

Episode #825

Nancy's Bookshelf

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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