Book Nook With Vick Mickunas

A 21-year-old aspiring screenwriter from Dayton has published her first book. Shamya Sumlin's memoir chronicles loss, resilience, and generational trauma.

You can take the boy out of Wapakoneta, but you can never take Wapakoneta out of this now 75-year-old man. Essays spanning Ohio, Argentina, and Patagonia.

My latest conversation with the eminent wordsmith Stefan Fatsis. The Word Freak author discusses dictionaries, Merriam-Webster and how language evolves online.

One of the hottest books in the country is a memoir about growing up in Urbana, Ohio. Beth Macy explores family, political division and paths to healing.

The Domingo the Bounty Hunter series kicks off with the simultaneous release of the first two books in this series by Filipino-American author Cindy Fazzi.

John E. Fleming was an influential member of our Yellow Springs community. His Peace Corps memoir and Ruth Paine's JFK assassin connection are revisited in this episode.

Thomas Perry was one fantastic crime fiction writer. This tribute revisits three interviews about his final novels before his death on Sept. 15, 2025 at age 78.

This story collection transforms itself into one heckuva novel about a baseball-obsessed family in Maine, plus a 1998 interview about African Americans in golf history.

A runner's memoir by a man who has run marathons on every continent. Bob Welbaum shares his adventures from Antarctica to the Great Wall of China at age 77.

The fourth book in a series about a teacher who can see ghosts tackles the crisis of missing and murdered indigenous women in a Michigan resort town setting.

A fantastic year for crime novels gets even better with this latest one from Lou Berney. The Mercurio family flees Vegas for Oklahoma City in this entertaining tale.

These secret diaries from the first half of the 19th century were never meant to be discovered. When a descendant found them, it was quite a surprise to everyone.

In her latest horror novel, Tantrum, Rachel Eve Moulton offers readers a tale narrated from the standpoint of a woman who gave birth to a monstrous baby daughter.

Narcissistic leaders have always been among us, perhaps even more so today. A look back and forward at those narcissistic leaders we know all too well from 2001.

If you could go back in time to change a few things, would you do it? Philip King does just that in a delightful fantasy novel that's part sci-fi, part memoir.

What did you do today? Oh, I was just hanging out with the Virgin Mary. How about you? Canadian author's novel about faith, friendship and miraculous encounters.

The novelist Greg Iles died in August. He was 65. I revisited his first appearance on the program when we discussed his Natchez Burning trilogy and Southern racism.

This human resources specialist was being totally professional until she began falling in love with her client. Oops. A workplace romance that became marriage.