Book Nook With Vick Mickunas

Rubin Battino has written many books during his long life.

Sometimes a writer only has that one great book waiting to come out.

A Dayton Daily News reporter who would not let go of a story.

Do you want to live a really long time? Here are some suggestions for how to do that.

Revisiting an interview with the political cartoonist who calls himself Tom Tomorrow.

Do animals have feelings? Of course they do!

The Dayton region is a bicyclists' paradise.

Kids say the darnedest things.

A serial killer is roaming the streets of Hollywood.

How nouvelle cuisine changed the way we look at restaurant menus.

A double dose of Willy Vlautin the double threat: musical, and literary.

In what has become a Book Nook tradition another poetry duel: Shuly Cawood vs. Vick Mickunas.

A memoir looking back at how a young girl remembers a tragic death inher family.

Remembering two former program guests who died recently, with my 2003 interviews for the book "Casualty of War-a Childhood Remembered" and "Rumi: The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing."

A debut crime novel that went on to win a prestigious Edgar Award.

A biography of the man who invented the turbojet engine.

This best-selling romance writer was experiencing a major change in hercareer.

Taking a look back at the state of air transportation nearly thirtyyears ago. Has it improved since then?

The second thriller in this dazzling new series does not disappoint.

This author's first two novels were written under the pen name "Sherri Szeman."