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We started with the Puritans, traveled the 1950s, visited the New Yorker and now we’ll explore blogger and web-comic creator Allie Brosh in a graphic novel. Bill Gates, said, “I love her approach—looking, listening, and describing with the observational skills of a scientist, the creativity of an artist, and the wit of a comedian.”

Luke gives some cold water channel catfish catching tips this week that he learned from Mr. Glenn Miller, a longtime reader of Luke's outdoor newspaper column. Luke also gives a few tips to help you keep the coyote population in check, especially if you live in an area with wild hogs.

Hello, Radio Readers. I’m Julie A. Sellers, author of the novel Ann of Sunflower Lane. Welcome to this High Plains Public Radio Readers BookByte of The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America by Bill Bryson.

Spring season extension is the practice of extending the growing season for plants in the spring by using protective coverings or other tools. This can help ensure a longer harvest season and higher quality produce. We'll talk this week about the difference between fall and spring season extension, and some tools you can use for a longer and more productive growing season!

It takes me a month to mentally prepare to drive through the High Plains and a week to recover. The only ties I have left are a love of an old hotel on Main Street in Cimarron and this book club.

Degree days are a way to measure how much heat an insect has accumulated over time. They're used to predict when an insect will develop, hatch, or reach peak adult emergence.But how do you calculate these numbers, and how do you apply them? We'll talk about how to use this information to minimize the pests in your garden, in this week's episode!

Now that we're in the new year, it won't be long before the soil starts to soften, and it'll be time to plant this year's new garden. So now is a great time to think about what you'd like to plant, and to start growing seedlings in the warmer weather indoors, so that you'll be ready to transplant them once you're ready to start gardening for the year. With a little research, and some good time management, you can ensure that all of your intended crop is ready for planting at the same time!

Hello. This is Phillip Periman in Amarillo reviewing David Sipress' book, What's So Funny? for the HPPR Reader's book club. Sipress, a regular cartoonist for The New Yorker is also a native of NYC. He has written a memoir that engaged me as a reader in both worlds.

Greetings from Goodwell in the Oklahoma Panhandle! I’m Marjory Hall with a BookByte for the Radio Reader’s Series. Don’t you think most people have been taught that rhetorical questions are great attention-grabbers? After all, such questions immediately invite the reader into the conversation.

This is Leslie VonHolten from the High Plains of Kansas with another Radio Reader’s Book Byte. Isn’t creativity an interesting element of being human? Such a mystery—where does it come from, and how does it manifest? I’ve found myself grateful for the various ways creative thinking appears in our lives.