Book Nook

By Vick MickunasArts Books

Book Nook episodes

May 11, 2018 Best of the Book Nook: A Conversation With Virginia Hamilton And Arnold Adoff
In 1996 at the time this interview was recorded Virginia Hamilton was probably the best known author then living in Ohio. I had the opportunity to interview Virginia along with her husband, the poet Arnold Adoff, in conversation together with me. That was a very special day in the Book Nook. Virginia wrote over 40 books during her long and highly regarded career. She grew up in Yellow Springs in a family that had been in this area for over a century. She met Arnold in New York. In this interview
48 min
May 09, 2018 Book Nook: Let Me Lie, by Clare Mackintosh
With her third mystery novel "Let Me Lie" Clare Mackintosh has made it clear that her career transition from police officer to successful novelist is now complete. Her first novel "I Let You Go" announced to the world that she is an author to watch. It sold over a million copies. Her second novel "I See You" totally creeped me out-I was delighted to interview Clare about it. She returned to the show to discuss her latest, another twisty turny edge of your chair cliffhanger of a thriller called
29 min
May 04, 2018 Best of the Book Nook: Transfer of Power, by Vince Flynn
When Vince Flynn came out to Yellow Springs to record our first radio show together he was an author on the rise. During our first conversation he described how he had quit a lucrative job to focus on writing his first novel. Flynn would write during the day then tend bar in St. Paul during the evenings. Flynn self-published that first book and it did well, so well that it was picked up by a major publisher, Simon and Schuster, and reissued. At that point Vince Flynn was on his way. The author's
50 min
May 02, 2018 Book Nook: Fisherman's Blues - a West African Community at Sea, by Anna Badkhen
Here in the United States we live our lives of astounding affluence. We take so many things for granted; fresh water, inexpensive fuels, hot showers, electricity, low crime rates, clean air, abundant food and shelter, heat, air conditioning, the internet; transportation, the list goes on and on. Our consumer society remains blissfully oblivious to how much of the rest of the world lives. Anna Badkhen opens literary windows for us so that we can learn about different cultures and comprehend some
29 min
April 30, 2018 Best of the Book Nook: Gemini, by Dorothy Dunnett
In 1994 I started interviewing authors on the radio. I probably would never have decided to do that if it hadn't been for the fact that in those days in any given year there were hundreds of authors passing through Dayton on book tours. Now we are fortunate to have one or two in the area during any given week. 18 years ago an author from Edinburgh, Scotland passed through on a tour to publicize her historical novel "Gemini." Her name was Dorothy Dunnett. On the day that she came out to our
50 min
April 26, 2018 Book Nook: William Howard Taft, by Jeffrey Rosen
William Howard Taft is the only president who also served as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. He was our 27th president and was the most judicial of the lot. While he was a reluctant president; he never really wanted the job, he was an immensely gifted chief justice and is considered to have been one of the best judges to have served in that position. Taft was part of an enduring political dynasty, the Tafts of Cincinnati. His father was one of the founders of the Republican party. Other
29 min
April 23, 2018 Best of the Book Nook: Remembering Philip Kerr
Publishers will often send out advance copies of books so that I will have the opportunity to read them before the books are officially published. I am always reading something and I'll usually finish a book before starting the next one. Usually. Now and then I'll receive a book by one of my favorite writers and I'll instantly drop whatever book I was reading so that I can start reading the latest by one of those authors whose work I treasure. Philip Kerr was one of those authors. Last year I
50 min
April 12, 2018 Book Nook: Not That I Could Tell, by Jessica Strawser
Jessica Strawser lives in Cincinnati-she was looking for the perfect setting for "Not That I Could Tell," her second novel. She decided that the ideal place for it would be a community that she enjoys visiting, the village of Yellow Springs, Ohio. As this story of domestic suspense opens a woman has vanished along with her children and nobody seems to know where they might have gone. The missing woman had been going through a contentious divorce, she has been separated from her husband, a
29 min
April 10, 2018 Best of the Book Nook: Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home In Italy, by Frances Mayes
22 years ago a relatively unknown poet became a publishing sensation after she released her first memoir. Frances Mayes had written about her experiences renovating an ancient villa in the Tuscany region of Italy. That book, "Under the Tuscan Sun, became a massive blockbuster best-seller. The paperback remained on the best-seller list for years. When Frances Mayes came out to Yellow Springs for a live interview in 1996 she was at the final stop of an exhausting book tour. During our conversation
50 min
April 04, 2018 Book Nook: Sunburn, by Laura Lippman
Laura Lippman's latest novel is a standalone noir that pays tribute to the work of the legendary James M. Cain. Lippmann got the theme for this one in part from a newspaper story that ran during her days as a journalist in Baltimore. During this interview she tiptoed around what that news story was actually about because knowing what it discussed would have been a bit of a spoiler Suffice it to say that this is a story of secrets. Things are not what they seem. The two main characters are
30 min

About Book Nook

From the publisher's feed

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.…