Book Nook With Vick Mickunas

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

Episodios

  • 'King of Ashes' by S.A. Cosby: Family, crime & crematory secrets

    23/06/2025 Duración: 29min

    The latest crime novel by S.A. Cosby is smoking hot. "King of Ashes" explores family bonds in a crematory business as siblings face dangerous criminals.

  • "Medicine River: A Story of Survival and the Legacy of IndianBoarding Schools" by Mary Annette Pember

    23/06/2025 Duración: 51min

    This Book Nook features Ohioan Mary Annette Pember discussing "Medicine River," her memoir about the Indian boarding schools that tried to erase their cultural heritages.

  • 'Don't Forget Me, Little Bessie' by James Lee Burke explores America

    22/06/2025 Duración: 29min

    James Lee Burke discusses his new novel with WYSO's Book Nook. He has made more appearances on the program than any other guest, spanning nearly 30 years.

  • "A Thousand Pieces of Gold: Growing Up Through China's Proverbs" by Adeline Yen Mah

    20/06/2025 Duración: 28min

    Has there ever been a better time to try to understand China and the Chinese? Author Adeline Yen Mah explores Chinese proverbs, family, and history in this interview.

  • 'A Gate in the Wall: A Pacific War POW's Secret Diary and a Family's Path Toward Reconciliation' by Melinda Barnhardt

    12/06/2025 Duración: 50min

    Dutch POW secretly documented his WWII captivity in Japan through a hidden diary. He needed a strong spirit to survive his ordeal. A story of resilience & reconciliation.

  • Best of the Book Nook: 'The Middle Mind - Why Americans Don't Think for Themselves' by CurtisWhite

    04/06/2025 Duración: 51min

    Twenty-two years later, this interview remains provocative.

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

    23/05/2025 Duración: 50min

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

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

    21/05/2025 Duración: 28min

    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

    20/05/2025 Duración: 50min

    A fascinating history of one our greatest institutions.

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

    12/05/2025 Duración: 28min

    The first book in a new series of thrillers.

  • Book Nook: 'Murder in Victorian Dayton: The Tragic Story of Bessie Little' by SaraKaushal

    11/05/2025 Duración: 28min

    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

    10/05/2025 Duración: 36min

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

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

    10/05/2025 Duración: 28min

    What were you doing in 1999?

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

    10/05/2025 Duración: 50min

    We all need to take occasional mental breaks from reality.

  • Best of the Book Nook: Baseball edition

    24/04/2025 Duración: 50min

    Books and baseball can be fabulous when combined.

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

    22/04/2025 Duración: 28min

    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

    21/04/2025 Duración: 49min

    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

    19/04/2025 Duración: 49min

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

  • Book Nook: April is National Poetry Month

    18/04/2025 Duración: 48min

    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'

    17/04/2025 Duración: 28min

    An interview with the Dunbar scholar Herbert Woodward Martin.