Book Nook
316 episodes - English - Latest episode: 16 days ago - ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsListen to the Book Nook with Vick Mickunas for intimate conversations about books with the writers who create them.
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The Best of the Book Nook: 'Advanced Sex Tips for Girls: This Time It's Personal' by Cynthia Heimel
January 18, 2022 19:00 - 51 minutes - 46.8 MBVick Mickunas reaches into the vault for an interview from 20 years ago with humorist Cynthia Heimel's only interview with WYSO.
Book Nook: 'So Far and Good' by John Straley
January 16, 2022 16:00 - 29 minutes - 66.8 MBAuthor John Straley returns for an interview with Vick Mickunas.
Book Nook: 'Lincoln's Northern Nemesis: The War Opposition and Exile of Ohio's Clement Vallandigham by Martin Gottlieb'
January 14, 2022 19:00 - 49 minutes - 114 MBHave you ever heard of Clement Vallandigham? If you are a Southwest Ohio native you probably should have at least recognized his name. But you didn't, did you?
Book Nook: Poor Will's Almanack for 2022
January 12, 2022 18:43 - 29 minutes - 66.8 MBVick Mickunas has a fun chat with fellow WYSO contributor Bill Felker.
The Best of the Book Nook: "Birth of the Cool: Beat, Bebop, and the American Avant Garde" by Lewis MacAdams
January 10, 2022 20:45 - 50 minutes - 115 MBVick Mickunas' 2001 interview with author Lewis MacAdams.
Book Nook: 'The Big Cheat: How Donald Trump Fleeced America and Enriched Himself and His Family' by David Cay Johnston
January 04, 2022 20:32 - 29 minutes - 26.7 MBVick Mickunas interviews author David Cay Johnston.
Book Nook: 'The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth' by Sam Quinones
December 31, 2021 17:29 - 49 minutes - 45.3 MBVick Mickunas interviews author and journalist Sam Quinones.
The Book Nook: "Sometimes Say My Name" by Herbert Woodward Martin
December 30, 2021 11:45 - 28 minutes - 26.5 MBVick Mickunas interviews poet Herbert Woodward Martin.
Book Nook: "Sometimes Say My Name" by Herbert Woodward Martin
December 30, 2021 11:45 - 28 minutes - 26.5 MBVick Mickunas interviews poet Herbert Woodward Martin.
The Best of the Book Nook: 'A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail' by Bill Bryson
December 28, 2021 19:30 - 49 minutes - 45.6 MBAn interview with Steven Katz from Vick Mickunas.
Best of the Book Nook: 'The Soul of a Chef: The Journey Toward Perfection' by Michael Ruhlman
December 17, 2021 18:38 - 28 minutes - 26.5 MBVick Mickunas takes us back to 2003 when he interviewed authorMichael Ruhlman.
The Best of the Book Nook: 'The Soul of a Chef: The Journey Toward Perfection' by Michael Ruhlman
December 17, 2021 18:38 - 28 minutes - 26.5 MBVick Mickunas takes us back to 2003 when he interviewed author Michael Ruhlman.
The Best of the Book Nook: Miss Corpus by Clay McLeod Chapman
December 08, 2021 15:53 - 50 minutes - 46.4 MBVick Mickunas' 2003 interview with Clay McLeod Chapman for his first novel,"Miss Corpus."
Book Nook: 250 Vital Things Your Cat Wants You to Know: The Cat Guardian’s Bible by Ingrid Newkirk
December 04, 2021 13:29 - 28 minutes - 26.5 MBVick Mickunas interviews author and founder of PETA, Ingrid Newkirk.
Book Nook: Our Country Friends by Gary Shteyngart
December 02, 2021 11:45 - 28 minutes - 26.5 MBVick Mickunas' interview with author Gary Shteyngart.
Book Nook: Never by Ken Follett
November 23, 2021 21:28 - 50 minutes - 46 MBVick Mickunas interviews author Ken Follett.
Book Nook: Virginia Hamilton - Five Novels edited by Julie K. Rubini
November 19, 2021 20:27 - 29 minutes - 26.7 MBVick Mickunas' interview with Julie Rubini.
Book Nook: Our Class: Trauma and Transformation in an American Prison by Chris Hedges
November 18, 2021 12:48 - 28 minutes - 26.5 MBChris Hedges returned to the program with another powerful book. Here's Vick Mickunas' review of the book, which ran recently in the Cox Ohio newspapers.
Book Nook: Conversations with Angela Davis
November 15, 2021 16:39 - 50 minutes - 45.8 MBVick Mickunas sits down for an interview with Sharon Lynette Jones.
Book Nook: I Am Not Who You Think I Am by Eric Rickstad
November 13, 2021 15:00 - 28 minutes - 26.5 MBIn a recent interview, Vick Mickunas speaks with author Eric Rickstand about his novel, "I Am Not Who You think I Am".
Best of the Book Nook: Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture by Michael A. Bellesiles
November 11, 2021 20:25 - 50 minutes - 45.9 MBIn this episode, the Book Nook takes us back to the year 2000. After being featured in the New York Times, author Michael A. Bellesiles, sat down with Vick Mickunas for a live interview about his book "Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture"
Best of the Book Nook: "Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture" by Michael A. Bellesiles
November 11, 2021 20:25 - 50 minutes - 45.9 MBIn this episode, the Book Nook takes us back to the year 2000. After being featured in the New York Times, author Michael A. Bellesiles, sat down with Vick Mickunas for a live interview about his book "Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture"
Best of the Book Nook: Take the Cannoli: Stories From the New World by Sarah Vowell
November 05, 2021 17:02 - 49 minutes - 45.7 MBVick Mickunas' 2002 interview with Sarah Vowell, plus a bonus interview from 1996 with the late writer Gary Paulsen
Best of the Book Nook: "Take the Cannoli: Stories From the New World" by Sarah Vowell
November 05, 2021 17:02 - 49 minutes - 45.7 MBVick Mickunas' 2002 interview with Sarah Vowell, plus a bonus interview from 1996 with the late writer Gary Paulsen
Best of the Book Nook: Why I Am a Catholic by Gary Wills
November 01, 2021 16:19 - 29 minutes - 26.7 MBVick Mickunas' 2002 interview with Gary Wills
Book Nook: The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year: 2021, edited by Lee Child and Otto Penzler
October 09, 2021 23:25 - 28 minutes - 26.5 MBVick Mickunas' 2021 interview with Otto Penzler
Book Nook: Scarlet at Crystal River (Haunted Shores Mysteries) by Randy Overbeck
October 01, 2021 17:17 - 28 minutes - 26.5 MBVick Mickunas' 2021 interview with Randy Overbeck
Book Nook: The Dark Remains: Laidlaw's First Case" by William McIlvanney and Ian Rankin
September 29, 2021 23:34 - 28 minutes - 26.5 MBVick Mickunas' 2021 interview with Ian Rankin
Book Nook: Sleeper Agent: The Atomic Spy in America Who Got Away by Ann Hagedorn
September 28, 2021 00:09 - 28 minutes - 26.5 MBVick Mickunas' 2021 interview with Ann Hagedorn
Best of the Book Nook: New Passages: Mapping Your Life Across Time by Gail Sheehy
September 24, 2021 15:19 - 49 minutes - 45.8 MBVick Mickunas' 1996 interview with Gail Sheehy
Book Nook: My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones
September 21, 2021 16:50 - 28 minutes - 26.5 MBVick Mickunas' 2021 interview with Stephen Graham Jones
Book Nook: The Pocket Pawpaw Cookbook by Sara Bir
September 19, 2021 18:16 - 50 minutes - 45.9 MBVick Mickunas' 2021 interview with Sarah Bir
Book Nook: The Almost Legendary Morris Sisters: A True Story of Family Fiction by Julie Klam
September 17, 2021 15:15 - 28 minutes - 26.5 MBVick Mickunas' 2021 interview with Julie Klam
Book Nook: The Keepers by Jeffrey B. Burton
September 14, 2021 14:07 - 50 minutes - 45.9 MBVick Mickunas' 2021 interview with Jeffrey B. Burton
Book Nook: Unknown Male by Nicolás Obregón
September 13, 2021 19:47 - 28 minutes - 26.5 MBVick Mickunas' 2021 interview with Nicolás Obregón
Book Nook: Another Kind of Eden by James Lee Burke
September 10, 2021 19:10 - 50 minutes - 45.9 MBVick Mickunas' 2021 interview with James Lee Burke
Book Nook: An Interview With Joe Garden
August 30, 2021 17:59 - 50 minutes - 45.8 MBVick Mickunas' 2021 interview with Joe Garden
Book Nook: Philip Payton: The Father of Black Harlem by Kevin McGruder
August 23, 2021 16:33 - 50 minutes - 45.9 MBVick Mickunas' 2021 interview with Kevin McGruder
Book Nook: The Painting and the City by Robert Freeman Wexler
August 20, 2021 17:17 - 28 minutes - 26.5 MBVick Mickunas' 2021 interview with Robert Freeman Wexler
Book Nook: King Richard: Nixon and Watergate--An American Tragedy by Michael Dobbs
August 18, 2021 16:49 - 50 minutes - 46.1 MBVick Mickunas' 2021 interview with Michael Dobbs
Book Nook: King Robin by R.A. Moss
August 16, 2021 16:39 - 29 minutes - 26.7 MBVick Mickunas' 2021 interview with R.A. Moss
Book Nook: Satan's Choir, by Tom Harley Campbell
August 13, 2021 16:56 - 49 minutes - 45.5 MBVick Mickunas' 2021 interview with Tom Harley Campbell
Book Nook: Dream Girl, by Laura Lippman
August 11, 2021 19:44 - 29 minutes - 26.7 MBVick Mickunas' 2021 interview with Laura Lippman
Best of the Book Nook: Falling Angels Tracy Chevalier
August 09, 2021 18:41 - 49 minutes - 45.7 MBVick Mickunas' 2002 interview with Tracy Chevalier
Book Nook: Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby
August 03, 2021 16:34 - 29 minutes - 26.7 MBVick Mickunas' 2021 interview with S.A. Cosby
The Best of the Book Nook: The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
July 30, 2021 17:25 - 50 minutes - 45.9 MBVick Mickunas' 1996 interview with Nicholas Sparks
Book Nook: Falling by T.J. Newman
July 28, 2021 14:58 - 28 minutes - 26.5 MBVick Mickunas' 2021 interview with T.J. Newman
The Best of the Book Nook: "Flight" by Jan Burke
July 26, 2021 14:41 - 49 minutes - 45.8 MBVick Mickunas' 2001 interview with Jan Burke
Best of the Book Nook: Providence: The Story of a Fifty-Year Vision Quest by Daniel Quinn
July 20, 2021 13:42 - 28 minutes - 26.5 MBVick Mickunas' 1996 interview with Daniel Quinn
Best of the Book Nook: The Coming Global Superstorm by Art Bell and Whitley Strieber
July 16, 2021 21:57 - 50 minutes - 45.9 MBVick Mickunas' 1999 interview with Whitley Strieber