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Nancy talks with Chico State University English professor Rob Davidson about his new fiction collection.

In honor of the season of gratitude, festivities, long nights, rest, and reflection upon us, this week we revisit a BEST OF conversation with Robin Wall Kimmerer, Indigenous scholar, professor, land and culture tender, MacArthur Genius Grant award winner, mother, and all around wonderful human.

Host Dave Schlom visits with nature and wildlife writer Sy Montgomery, whose Soul of An Octopus was a National Book Award finalist, about her latest work, What The Chicken Knows: A New Appreciation of the World's Most Familiar Bird.

Chico mathematician Scott Lape has written a numbers reference book for children that is also fun for adults.

Host Dave Schlom visits with Lucy Jane Santos, author of the new book, "Chain Reactions: The Hopeful History of Uranium." It's a fascinating sequel to her previous book, "Half Lives: the Unlikely History of Radium."

Host Dave Schlom visits with Elsa Richardson, an academic at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. Her new book, Rumbles: A Curious History of The Gut is a fascinating journey through the story of our ongoing quest to understand the process of digestion.

Can He Say That? is an edgy essay collection on subjects from murder to meditation, politics to punctuation. Anthony Peyton Porter’s column “From the…