"This edition of Food for Thought features Kerry Temple, editor of Notre Dame Magazine and author of†Back to Earth: A Backpacker's Journey into Self and Sou?. Lisa Knopp, associate professor of English at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, is also featured discussing her newly published collection of essays, Interior Places. This edition of Food for Thought covers the topics of Midwestern landscape and culture, the American West, spirituality and nature writing.