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Book Nook episodes

November 06, 2018 Book Nook: In The House In The Dark Of The Woods, by Laird Hunt
Laird Hunt returned to the program to discuss his final book in a quartet of novels. Hunt did not set out to write a horror story but after you read 'In the House in the Dark of the Woods" I think you'll agree that is exactly what he has done. I encourage you to read this book. I don't know how he did it. It seems that he was able to access some subterranean channel for inspiration. There's a sense that we are witnessing automatic writing here and the author was a mere vessel spilling over with
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November 02, 2018 Book Nook: November Road, by Lou Berney
The assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas in November 1963 spawned numerous conspiracy theories. The Warren Commission established that Lee Harvey Oswald was acting alone when he began firing down upon the presidential motorcade from the Texas Book Depository Building. Rumors circulated that JFK had been the target of mobsters and that organized crime figures commissioned the killing. But it was never proven. In Lou Berney's latest novel "November Road" readers are treated to an
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November 01, 2018 Book Nook: Wrecked, by Joe Ide
Joe Ide just published his third book in a series that features his ghetto Sherlock Holmes character Isaiah Quintabe AKA I.Q. I have had Joe on the program for all three books and it has really been a pleasure to see the development of this character and the author's rising profile in the crime fiction genre. In this one I.Q. and his sidekick Dodson take on a gang of former soldiers who have become sadists during the time they served in Iraq where they tortured prisoners under the supervision of
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October 23, 2018 Book Nook: Brew Beer Like A Yeti, by Jereme Zimmerman
Jereme Zimmerman returned to the program to talk about his exciting new book about home brewing. Some of you might recall that on his previous visit to the show he told us about his adventures in making mead. His new book is just as interesting and as beautifully conceived as his previous one. We learn the history of brewing beer, ales, and other things and he shows us some amazing recipes and techniques for creating our own tasty beverages. The Book Nook on WYSO is presented by the Greene
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October 15, 2018 Book Nook: Blood in the Streets, by Daniel L. Baker and Gwen Nalls
I moved to SW Ohio in 1993 and began hosting radio shows on WYSO in June of that same year. I have tried to learn as much as I can about the history of this region. I was aware that during the 1960's there were racial disturbances and riots in many major metropolitan areas. I had heard that there were riots in Dayton during that period but I knew very little about them. Well, after perusing "Blood in the Streets - Racism, Riots and Murders in the Heartland of America" I now know a lot more about
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October 12, 2018 Best of the Book: Straight Man, by Richard Russo
If there is one thing that I have learned during the time that I have hosted this program it is this; when I have an opportunity to interview an author I admire I had better try to do it because one never knows if there will ever be a second chance to do so. Richard Russo is one of those authors. He passed through the area on a book tour in July of 1997. Dayton was his final stop. He came out to Yellow Springs to do a live interview that afternoon. And I have never had another opportunity to
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October 09, 2018 Best Of The Book Nook: Jacob's Ladder - a Story of Virginia During the War by Donald McCaig
21 years ago I had the opportunity to talk to Donald McCaig about his epic Civil War novel "Jacob's Ladder." He came through Dayton on his book tour and stopped at our studios that afternoon for a live interview. I was charmed. He shared his fascinating personal story about how he had made the transition from a "Mad Men" style Madison Avenue advertising man to become a writer and a sheep rancher in rural Virginia. And then there was the book; what a magnificent story he tells in "Jacob's Ladder.
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October 05, 2018 Best Of The Book Nook: Heartwood, by James Lee Burke
I have interviewed James Lee Burke more times than any other author. He is now in his early eighties and he is just as productive as he ever was. He put out another novel last January and we had him back on the program. He has another one coming out in January, 2019 and I am hoping he'll want to do an interview for that book, too. He stopped going on book tours many years ago. Back in 1999 when he visited the program to discuss his novel "Heartwood" he was coming through Dayton on book tour.
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October 03, 2018 Book Nook: An Interview With Kent And Kevin Dixon About The Epic Of Gilgamesh
"The Epic of Gilgamesh" is an ancient tale. It is probably the oldest story that we know about. It was discovered during the 19th century when some clay tablets were unearthed in the Middle East. The story had been written on the tablets in cuneiform characters and over the intervening years has been translated numerous times. Some of the tiles were missing fragments but most of the story had survived intact. Kent Dixon spent years putting together his own version of the story. He based it upon
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October 01, 2018 Book Nook: Bone On Bone, by Julia Keller
Julia Keller returned to the program to discuss the latest installment in her series that features Bell Elkins. These books are set mostly in the small town of Acker's Gap, West Virginia. As this series has moved forward Bell Elkins has experienced quite a shift in her position in the world. Bell used to be the county prosecutor. Then she put herself in the position of allowing herself to be convicted of a murder and she was sent to prison. As this story begins she has been released from prison
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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.…