Book Nook

Book Nook

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Book Nook episodes

  • Book Nook: An Interview With James Thomas, Co-editor Of New Micro-Exceptionally Short Fiction
    We live in highly compressed times. Everything is moving super fast; social media, the news cycle, climate change, political scandals, you name it. And with this barrage of information our attention spans are getting overloaded. Many readers would never consider bothering to read a 300 page book. Not enough time they would say. Too busy. Well, James Thomas has spent decades putting together anthologies of short stories that seemingly keep getting shorter and shorter with each new installment.
    50 min
  • Book Nook: Sunrise Highway, by Peter Blauner
    Peter Blauner returned to the program to discuss his second book in a series that features an NYPD detective named Lourdes Robles. Robles is an unlikely law officer, she has had a difficult past, her father is serving time in prison. Fortunately for Lourdes she has had a great mentor named Sully who we met in the first book "Proving Ground." Sully is retired now but Lourdes has maintained that relationship and as this book reaches a stunning conclusion Sully is very much involved in the ultimate
    29 min
  • Best Of The Book Nook: And My Shoes Keep Walking Back To You, by Kathi Kamen Goldmark
    In 2002 I had a very special guest come out to our studios in Yellow Springs to see me. Kathi Kamen Goldmark had been to Yellow Springs many times before. She was a graduate of Antioch College. On this particular occasion she came here for only one reason, to do this interview live in our WYSO studios. She had a day off between events on her schedule. The day before she had been featured at the Jewish Book Festival in Detroit. And after our interview she went back to the Cincinnati airport to
    50 min
  • Book Nook: A Poetry Reading With Shuly Cawood
    Shuly Cawood returned to the program to share some of her poetry. You might recall that last year Shuly visited The Book Nook to discuss her memoir "The Going and Goodbye." Following the recent death of WYSO's longtime poetic professor Conrad Balliet I hoped to offer an homage to him with some poetry and Shuly was the first poet that came to my mind. Shuly's poetry is beautiful. I hope you enjoy it. The Book Nook on WYSO is presented by the Greene County Public Library with additional support
    29 min
  • Book Nook: Discovery and Renewal on Huffman Prairie: Where Aviation Took Wing, by David Nolin
    Huffman Prairie is just down the road from our studios in Yellow Springs. Have you ever been there? It is located at Wright Patterson Air Force Base and that is the spot where the Wright Brothers perfected their flying machines. In fact if they had not accomplished this modern miracle at that location Huffman Prairie as it is today would surely not exist. Dave Nolin has made a few trips out there. Okay, Dave Nolin has made many trips out there. In his book "Discovery and Renewal on Huffman
    49 min
  • Best of the Book Nook: Three Books: Body Rags; Mortal Acts, Mortal Words; The Past by Galway Kinnell
    Back in 2002 I was looking for some poetry to feature on the program to mark National Poetry Month. I had just seen that three of the poet Galway Kinnell's books had recently been reissued in one volume as "Three Books: Body Rags; Mortal Acts, Mortal Words; and The Past" so I contacted his publicist to inquire about an interview. My request was granted and I called him at his home in Vermont to conduct a live interview during the Book Nook section of the Excursions music program I was hosting.
    30 min
  • Book Nook: America - the Farewell Tour, by Chris Hedges
    Chris Hedges returned to the program to discuss his latest book. Over the years that I have been interviewing him I have discovered that his books are serious critiques of our society. He is thoughtful, articulate, and determined. This latest book is one of the most essential books that I have read in many years. Hedges speaks his truth and that can be profoundly depressing. Don't expect any laughter or mirth in this conversation. Hedges calls it the way he sees it and reality can be an ugly
    51 min
  • Best of the Book Nook: Listening to the Page, by Alan Cheuse
    For decades Alan Cheuse was the book reviewer on National Public Radio's program All Things Considered. When I recorded this interview Cheuse had already booked 20 years on the program and had reviewed hundreds of titles. Cheuse was passionate about books and particularly works of fiction. Cheuse continued his work for NPR until just a few years ago when he was involved in a tragic traffic accident in California. He eventually succumbed to his injuries. He was 75. In this interview we talked
    29 min
  • Book Nook: Tasting Ohio - Favorite Recipes from the Buckeye State, by Sara Bir
    Sara Bir returned to the program to discuss her cookbook of recipes from all over Ohio. We live in a big state with varied cuisines. The food you'll find in Cleveland will be quite different from what you might discover to eat in Cincinnati. And then there are all those places in between. The author did a great job of assembling a wide variety of recipes that reflect the diversity and culinary excitement that you can find in Ohio. There are a number of recipes from right here in our region. Chef
    29 min
  • Book Nook: The Middleman, by Olen Steinhauer
    Try to picture a scenario in which the United States has been taken over by corporations and that corporate power rules the land. Imagine that many of our leaders are being complicit with our corporate overlords and that corruption, shady deals, and money laundering have become the hidden hallmarks of power. In this fictional world Donald Trump is still our president but just about everything else is different. I realize this seems absurd and inconceivable. In his new novel "The Middleman" Olen
    29 min

About Book Nook

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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.…

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  1. Number 1: Best of Book Nook: 'In Service of the Wild' by Stephanie Mills
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  2. Number 2: Best of the Book Nook: 'Certain Prey' by John Sandford
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  3. Number 3: Book Nook: 'The Talking Bone' by Rene Denfeld
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