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Listen to the Book Nook with Vick Mickunas for intimate conversations about books with the writers who create them.

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    Book Nook: 'Trapped!: The Story of Floyd Collins' by Robert K. Murray and Roger W. Brucker

    Play Episode Listen Later May 23, 2025 50:49


    100 years ago this was the biggest story in the news.

    Best of the Book Nook: 'Nagasaki:Life After Nuclear War' by Susan Southard

    Play Episode Listen Later May 21, 2025 28:59


    It was 80 years ago that the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Japan.

    Book Nook: 'Smithson's Gamble: The Smithsonian Institution in American Life, 1836–1906' by Tom D. Crouch

    Play Episode Listen Later May 20, 2025 50:16


    A fascinating history of one our greatest institutions.

    Book Nook: 'Remote : the Six' by Eric Rickstad

    Play Episode Listen Later May 12, 2025 28:59


    The first book in a new series of thrillers.

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    Book Nook: 'Murder in Victorian Dayton: The Tragic Story of Bessie Little' by Sara Kaushal

    Play Episode Listen Later May 11, 2025 28:59


    A true crime story that transfixed Dayton in the 1890s.

    Book Nook: 'X, Y and Z: The Real Story of How Enigma Was Broken' by Dermot Turing

    Play Episode Listen Later May 10, 2025 36:48


    A conversation with Alan Turing's nephew, Sir Dermot Turing.

    Book Nook: '1999: The Year Low Culture Conquered America and Kickstarted Our Bizarre Times' by Ross Benes

    Play Episode Listen Later May 10, 2025 28:59


    What were you doing in 1999?

    Best of the Book Nook: 'The Norske Nook Book of Pies and Other Recipes' by Jerry Bechard

    Play Episode Listen Later May 10, 2025 50:05


    We all need to take occasional mental breaks from reality.

    Best of the Book Nook: Baseball edition

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 24, 2025 50:05


    Books and baseball can be fabulous when combined.

    Book Nook: 'Friendships Are Forever' by Dr. Douglas Coatney

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 22, 2025 28:59


    A retired veterinarian who is now writing children's books.

    Book Nook: 'Prescription for Pain: How a Once-Promising Doctor Became the Pill Mill Killer' by Philip Eil

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 21, 2025 49:13


    Recalling the prescription pill mill crisis in Ohio.

    Book Nook: 'Funny Because It's True: How The Onion Created Modern American News Satire' by Christine Wenc

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 19, 2025 49:14


    Back in the 1980's The Onion practically invented fake news.

    Book Nook: April is National Poetry Month

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 18, 2025 48:48


    A poetry duel: the poet Shuly Cawood vs. Vick Mickunas.

    Best of the Book Nook: 'In His Own Voice: Dramatic & Other Uncollected Works of Paul Lawrence Dunbar'

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 17, 2025 28:59


    An interview with the Dunbar scholar Herbert Woodward Martin.

    Best of the Book Nook: 'A History of America in Thirty-Six Postage Stamps' by Chris West

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2025 49:23


    A fond remembrance of U.S. Postage stamps. Plus, an interview from the archives of Poor Will's host Bill Felker.

    Book Nook: 'Stealing Time' by Tilia Klebenov Jacobs and Norman Birnbach

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 31, 2025 28:59


    Have you ever wished that you could turn back time?

    Book Nook: 'The Boxcar Librarian' by Brianna Labuskes

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 31, 2025 50:17


    This novel is a love letter to books and librarians.

    Book Nook: 'The Dark Mirror' by Samantha Shannon

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 31, 2025 28:59


    Samantha Shannon publishes another blockbuster fantasy novel.

    Book Nook: 'Sunday People' by Jo Ann Kiser

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 27, 2025 49:12


    How a local author went from unpublished to rather prolific.

    Book Nook: 'Hang on St. Christopher' by Adrian McKinty

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 9, 2025 28:59


    One of my favorite writers returns.

    Book Nook: 'The Horse' by Willy Vlautin

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 7, 2025 52:12


    This is one of my favorite novels.

    Best of the Book Nook: 'And Now a Few Words From Me: Advertising's Leading Critic Lays Down the Law, Once and For All' by Bob Garfield

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 5, 2025 29:10


    He was advertising's leading critic.

    Book Nook: 'Paris Undercover: A Wartime Story of Courage, Friendship, and Betrayal' by Matthew Goodman

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 4, 2025 49:06


    This book was inspired by a memoir that turned out to be somewhat

    Best of the Book Nook: 'Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates' by Tom Robbins

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 23, 2025 28:59


    Remembering the late Tom Robbins.

    Book Nook: 'What She Wants: Poems on Obsession, Desire, Despair, Euphoria' by Kim Dower

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 21, 2025 50:11


    Poetry that doesn't take itself too seriously.

    Book Nook: 'Chain Reaction' by James Byrne

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 19, 2025 28:59


    This is the third book in this thriller series.

    Book Nook: 'This World and the Next' by Dave Essinger

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 18, 2025 49:02


    A sci-fi thriller set in a region somewhat like our own.

    Best of the Book Nook: 'It Must Have Been Moonglow: Reflections on the First Years of Widowhood' by Phyllis Greene

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 18, 2025 28:59


    A widow reflected upon her widowhood and her best-selling memoir aboutit.

    Best of the Book Nook: 'Island Boyz' by Graham Salisbury

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 10, 2025 50:13


    An award winning writer who wrote books for middle school boys.

    Book Nook: 'The Big Empty' by Robert Crais

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 9, 2025 28:40


    Only one other author has made more appearances on the program.

    Best of the Book Nook: 'Capital Crimes' by George Winslow

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 8, 2025 50:04


    This is not a book about capital punishment.

    Book Nook: 'Pro Bono' by Thomas Perry

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 29, 2025 28:59


    A devilishly clever legal thriller.

    Best of the Book Nook: 'I Want to Kill the Dog' by Richard M. Cohen, 'The Golden Dream by Gerry Faust

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 27, 2025 50:19


    Remembering two former guests who died recently.

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    Best of the Book Nook: 'Ghost Radio' by Dick Lourie

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 26, 2025 28:59


    A poetry of politics.

    Best of the Book Nook: 'Mother Tongue' by Demetria Martinez

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 22, 2025 50:13


    How a poem can become a novel.

    Best of the Book Nook: 'The Mistress of Spices' by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 14, 2025 28:59


    Looking back at the first novel by a well known writer.

    Best of the Book Nook: 'My War: A Love Story in Letters and Drawings' by Tracy Sugarman

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 11, 2025 50:16


    A WWII veteran described what his war looked like and how it felt.

    Best of Book Nook: Some Favorite Interviews from 2024

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 9, 2025 50:11


    Excerpts from three of my favorite radio conversations: "Kill for Me, Kill For You" by Steve Cavanagh, "Smoke Kings" by Jahmal Mayfield, and "Midnight and Blue" by Ian Rankin.

    Best of the Book Nook: Remembering Nikki Giovanni

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 8, 2025 50:09


    Surfing verbal waves with Nikki Giovanni.

    Book Nook: 'The Last King of California' by Jordan Harper

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 8, 2025 28:59


    A thriller that sizzles and smokes.

    The Best of the Book Nook: 'Demon in My View' by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 18, 2024 28:59


    Revisiting an interview with my youngest guest ever.

    Book Nook: 'Brassroots Democracy: Maroon Ecologies and the Jazz Commons' by Benjamin Barson

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 16, 2024 49:53


    Studying the connections between jazz and democracy.

    Book Nook: 'Dead Air: The Night That Orson Welles Terrified America' by William Elliott Hazelgrove

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 13, 2024 28:59


    The night a radio stunt went too far.

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