Book Nook

By Vick MickunasArts Books

Book Nook episodes

February 03, 2020 Best of the Book Nook: Dispatches from the Former Evil Empire, by Richard Threlkeld
During the mid 1960's if you turned on your television set to watch national news programs you really only had three options; CBS, NBC, or ABC. Later in the decade PBS was created and then you had four network choices but prior to the arrival of cable TV at the end of that decade those were your only TV channels for obtaining news of the world. The three major networks ruled the TV airwaves and they were notable for their fatherly, magisterial voices with news anchors like Walter and Chet and
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January 31, 2020 Best of the Book Nook: Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea: Poems and Not Quite Poems, by Nikki Giovanni
When Nikki Giovanni passed through Dayton on book tour I could not believe my good fortune. Back in 2002 Nikki was out publicizing "Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea: Poems and Not Quite Poems" and she came out to Yellow Springs to do a live interview. I love talking to poets and Nikki is not only one of our greatest living poets she is also one of our most prolific. Log on to Amazon and search for her name and you will be amazed at how many projects she has completed over the years. She grew up in
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January 29, 2020 Book Nook: The History of Rock and Roll-1964-1977, by Ed Ward
Some of my favorite interviews have come about in strange ways. Let me give you one example: About 20 years ago I got an interview with my radio idol, the late Studs Terkel. This is how it happened: one day I got a phone call at the station. An author I know was calling to say that she was on her way from New Orleans to Chicago and had stopped in Yellow Springs. She wondered if I could come downtown? She wanted to introduce me to somebody. That somebody was her boyfriend. That chance encounter
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January 27, 2020 Book Nook: Vick's Picks: My Favorite Interviews From 2019 (Part Two)
For my final program of 2019 I selected some more of my favorite interviews from the past year and I included my favorite interview of 2019! I never dreamed I would get an interview with this author and it was even more marvelous than I expected! Now you need to listen to this podcast to figure out which interview was my favorite. Here's one more detail; after I did the interview I received a hand-written thank you note from the author. That hardly ever happens. During 2019 I received two hand
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January 22, 2020 Book Nook: Vick's Picks: My Favorite Interviews From 2019 (Part One)
As the years fly by I like to pause at the end of each one to reflect upon the things that have happened during each year. I'll compile lists. For the past 15 years I have been writing book reviews for the Cox Ohio newspapers and each December I will share lists of my favorite books divided by whether they were fiction or non-fiction titles. During the decade that I was the music director at WYSO I would compile an annual list of my 100 favorite albums from each year. I do love making lists and
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January 16, 2020 Book Nook: Aug 9- Fog, by Kathryn Scanlan
Don't you just love it when you discover a book that is totally unusual and as you are reading it you keep saying things like; this is so beautiful, and, I am totally feeling this?! Kathryn Scanlan has created a book like that, I could not believe how much it resonated with me. Years ago the author came upon someone's diary that had been consigned to an auction. She obtained the diary then spent a long time reading it. Eventually she began doing things with it. She would extract some of the
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January 14, 2020 Best of the Book Nook: Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, Edited by Jesse Sheidlower
When I was in the fourth grade I received a Webster's Dictionary as a birthday present. I had asked for it and was so delighted to receive it. I spent the next year reading it. I have been a dictionary lover ever since. Over the years that I have been hosting this program I have had only a few opportunities to feature dictionaries on the program. When the "Shorter Oxford Dictionary" was issued in a new edition in 2002 I leaped at the opportunity to talk to one of the editors about this
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January 10, 2020 Best of the Book Nook: 8 Simple Rules For Dating My Teenage Daughter, by W. Bruce Cameron
2002 was the breakout year for the humorist Bruce Cameron. The previous year he had finally gotten his first book published and in 2002 as "8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter: And other tips from a beleaguered father [not that any of them work]" was coming out in paperback he was on a roll. Bruce was coming through Dayton to honor the late Erma Bombeck when I caught up with him. The book was being developed for a television pilot which then became a TV series and he was definitely on
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January 03, 2020 Book Nook: With Child: Lee Child and the Readers of Jack Reacher, by Andy Martin
Andy Martin spent a year shadowing the best-selling author Lee Child. Child allowed Martin to watch him as he was writing another one of his novels in the blockbuster series that features Jack Reacher. He sat there like a fly on the wall as Child typed away in his apartment which overlooks Central Park. He went out to eat with Child. He encountered Lee Child's fans. He gives us an up close and personal view of the man behind these popular books. He even reveals this nervous author who was
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January 01, 2020 Book Nook: Ethnic and National Identity in Bosnia-Herzegovina
Professor Keith Doubt returned to the program to discuss his latest book about Bosnia. If you want to gain a better understanding of this region and the impact that the Dayton Peace Accords have had on the nation of Bosnia this interview could serve to enlighten you. The Book Nook on WYSO is presented by the Greene County Public Library with additional support from Washington-Centerville Public Library , Clark County Public Library , Dayton Metro Library , Wright Memorial Public Library , and
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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.…