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Going far beyond book reviews, we invite people passionate about books and reading to give their personal stories and insights into the larger world of words and ideas. Please email jsmith@nebraskapublicmedia.org with your story.
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This Is Nebraska
Books That Tell Our Story
What book would you suggest to someone who’s never visited Nebraska to help them understand our state and its people? Email us your idea or give us a call @ 402-470-6530.
About The Show
A weekly book review and discussion program hosted by Pat Leach.
The program currently broadcasts Thursdays at 12:04 p.m. (CT) and during Friday Live, Fridays at 10 a.m. (CT).
Latest Episodes
An interview with "My Nebraska" author Bob Wirz
03/16/2023 | 14m
“Pickard County Atlas” by Chris Harding Thornton
03/09/2023 | 7m
"The Memory of Souls" by Cliff Taylor
03/02/2023 | 14m
"Ducks" by Kate Deaton and "Acting Class" by Nick Drnaso.
02/23/2023 | 15m
“Constructing a Nervous System” by Margo Jefferson
02/16/2023 | 9m
An inverview with Ladette Randolph author of 'Private Way'
02/09/2023 | 16m
“Demon Copperhead” by Barbara Kingsolver
02/02/2023 | 8m
“Prairie Up!” by Benjamin Vogt
01/26/2023 | 15m
“Sea of Tranquility” by Emily St. John Mandel
01/19/2023 | 8m
“Field Guide to a Hybrid Landscape” by Dana Fritz
01/12/2023 | 18m
Guest Don Macke offers his ideas for the This is Nebraska series
01/05/2023 | 14m
“Bittersweet" by Susan Cain
12/29/2022 | 10m
"The Marriage Portrait" by Maggie O’Farrell
12/22/2022 | 8m
Clark Whitehorn of UNL Press on books that tell Nebraska's story
12/15/2022 | 16m
Holiday gift suggestions for younger readers
12/08/2022 | 14m
The Annual Holiday Gift Guide for Book Lovers
12/01/2022 | 20m
"Confluence" a biography of John Gottschalk by George Ayoub
11/17/2022 | 20m
A History / True Crime book, "Hell's Half Acre" by Susan Jonusas
11/10/2022 | 9m
“The Evening Hero” by Marie Myung-Ok Lee
11/03/2022 | 8m
Dan Nieman offers suggestions for This is Nebraska
10/27/2022 | 12m
“The Sweet Remnants of Summer” by Alexander McCall Smith
10/20/2022 | 12m
"Sleepwalk" by Dan Chaon
10/13/2022 | 7m
“How the Word is Passed” by Clint Smith
10/06/2022 | 8m
"Accelerated" by Brian Ardinger
09/29/2022 | 13m
"French Braid" by Anne Tyler
09/22/2022 | 7m
“Lucy by the Sea” by Elizabeth Strout
09/15/2022 | 7m
“Cloud Cuckoo Land” by Anthony Doerr
09/08/2022 | 8m
“Trailed" by Kathryn Miles
09/01/2022 | 7m
Omaha writer Ted Wheeler on contemporary Nebraska authors
08/23/2022 | 13m
"Rebel with a Clause" by Ellen Jovin
08/18/2022 | 16m
"Deer Season" by Erin Flanagan
08/11/2022 | 9m
“This Is Nebraska – Books That Tell Our Story”
08/04/2022 | 16m
A look back at Willa Cather's 1922 novel "One of Ours"
07/28/2022 | 16m
"Poet Warrior: A Memoir" by Joy Harjo
07/21/2022 | 8m
“The People of Lincoln” by Randy Bretz
07/14/2022 | 15m
“The Five Wounds” by Kirstin Valdez-Quade
07/07/2022 | 8m
“A Life in Light: Meditations on Impermanence” by Mary Pipher
06/30/2022 | 14m
“75 Years on 4 Strings” by UNL Professor Hans Sturm
06/23/2022 | 18m
“Pastoral Song” by James Rebanks
06/16/2022 | 9m
“At the Corner of Fantasy and Main” by Matt Mason
06/09/2022 | 13m
One Book-One Lincoln Finalists.
06/02/2022 | 15m
“Matrix” by Lauren Groff
05/26/2022 | 8m
“Shadow Migration: Mapping a Life” by Suzanne Ohlmann
05/19/2022 | 16m
"The Wrong End of the Telescope" by Rabih Alameddine
05/12/2022 | 7m
“The Doctors Blackwell" by Janice Nimura
05/05/2022 | 16m
“Now Is the Time for Trees" by Dan Lambe
04/28/2022 | 11m
“Eat Your Woolly Mammoths!" by James Solheim
04/21/2022 | 13m
An interview with author B.J. Hollars and his son Henry.
04/14/2022 | 14m
A look at the epidemic of loneliness“Seek You” by Kristen Radtke
04/07/2022 | 7m
"Lincoln" from the Postcard History Series by E. Zimmer & J. McKee
03/31/2022 | 17m
“A World on the Wing" by Scott Weidensaul
03/24/2022 | 8m
“Painting Time” by Maylis de Kerangal
03/17/2022 | 9m