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Book Nook
Hosted by Vick Mickunas · EN
Listen to the Book Nook with Vick Mickunas for intimate conversations about books with the writers who create them.Vick Mickunas introduced the Book Nook author interview program for WYSO in 1994. Over the years, he has produced more than 1,700 interviews with writers, musicians, poets, politicians, and celebrities.He has interviewed historians such as Studs Terkel, David McCullough, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Simon Sebag Montefiore, and Gary Wills; politicians including Mario Cuomo, Sherrod Brown, George McGovern, John Kasich, Gary Hart, and Donald Trump; pundits such as Karl Rove, Ann Coulter, Ralph Nader, and Christopher Hitchens; broadcast journalists like Jim Lehrer, Robin MacNeil, Chris Wallace, Ken Bode, and Richard Threlkeld; movie stars including Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Peter Ustinov, Kevin Bacon, and Bruce Campbell; romance writers Nora Roberts and Janet Dailey; astronauts such as John Glenn, Buzz Aldrin, Tom Stafford, and Gene Cernan; diplomats including Richard Holbrooke and Jose Ramos Horta; humorists like Bill Bryson, Gary Shteyngart, Art Buchwald, Gail Collins, Dave Barry, Roz Chast, and Sarah Vowell; food writers including Amanda Hesser, Molly O'Neill, Michael Ruhlman, and Judith Jones; poets such as Galway Kinnell, Donald Hall, Nikki Giovanni, Billy Collins, Coleman Barks, Hanif Abdurraqib, and Shuly Cawood; crime writers like P.D. James, Sue Grafton, James Lee Burke, Louise Penny, Robert Crais, John Sandford, Don Winslow, Lawrence Block, Ian Rankin, Adrian McKinty, Lee Child, Walter Mosley, Ed McBain, and Philip Kerr; espionage novelists like Alan Furst, Mick Herron, and Olen Steinhauer; horror novelists including Clive Barker, Joe Hill, Stephen Graham Jones, Danielle Trussoni, and Paul Tremblay; and music legends from bands like The Animals, Duran Duran, Joy Division, The Doors, the Byrds, and The Rolling Stones.Vick Mickunas reviews books for the Dayton Daily News and the Springfield News Sun.
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Remembering Greg Iles: "Mississippi Blood" & Natchez Burning Trilogy
Sep 1200:50:14Tap to summarizeThe novelist Greg Iles died in August. He was 65. I revisited his first appearance on the program when we discussed his Natchez Burning trilogy and Southern racism.
Transcribe →"Book of YES" by Erin Rastikis: HR Love Story That Transformed Lives
Sep 1200:29:00Tap to summarizeThis human resources specialist was being totally professional until she began falling in love with her client. Oops. A workplace romance that became marriage.
Transcribe →Cindy Fazzi's 'Danger No Problem': Immigration Thriller 30 Years Later
Aug 2600:29:00Tap to summarizeThirty years ago when Cindy Fazzi wrote this novel about undocumented immigrants, no publisher would touch it. They said nobody would want to read it. How times changed.
Transcribe →"The Witch's Orchard" by Archer Sullivan: Appalachian mystery series
Aug 2500:29:00Tap to summarizeA new private eye series set in the Appalachian region kicks off with a search for two girls who vanished without a trace 10 years ago. Annie Gore investigates.
Transcribe →'Amanda' by Kay Hooper & C.J. McLin Autobiography: 1995 & 1998 on WYSO
Aug 2100:49:59Tap to summarizeKay Hooper was a bestselling romance novelist when she visited WYSO for an interview 30 years ago. Plus C.J. McLin Jr.'s autobiography discussion with Dr. Minnie Johnson.
Transcribe →"Miriam's Kitchen" by Elizabeth Ehrlich: Memoir & Recipes from 1998
Aug 2000:29:00Tap to summarizeAn author's mother-in-law taught her valuable life lessons and fantastic recipes. This memoir explores Jewish heritage, kosher cooking, and spiritual revival.
Transcribe →'Enemy Aliens' by David Cole: Constitutional rights in war on terror
Aug 1900:51:10Tap to summarizeThis interview with constitutional rights scholar David Cole was timely 22 years ago and seems even more pertinent today. Post-9/11 civil liberties and the Patriot Act.
Transcribe →A Public Peace Process" by Harold Saunders: Diplomacy & Dialogue
Aug 1800:50:05Tap to summarizeA longtime diplomat shares his insights into how sustained dialogues are key elements in engineering successful peace negotiations. Hear a Camp David Accords negotiator.
Transcribe →"Love in Another Town" by Barbara Taylor Bradford - 1995 Interview
Aug 1400:50:21Tap to summarizeBarbara Taylor Bradford was in her mid-40s when she published her first novel. It sold more than 30 million copies. Over her long career, she sold more than 90 million.
Transcribe →A Few Small Candles: War Resisters of World War II Tell Their Stories
Aug 1300:29:01Tap to summarizeLarry Gara was a peace activist who walked the walk. He was a Quaker and conscientious objector who served a prison term rather than serve in WWII. Rare 1999 interview.
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