Books - Fiction

Vick Mickunas' 2020 interview with Paul Tremblay

Vick Mickunas' 2003 interview with Robert Jordan

Eighteen years ago I had a young writer making his first appearance on the program with his debut novel. Brad Thor's book "The Lions of Lucerne" became…

For the past several years I have been fiddling around with writing a crime novel. As I have fiddled I kept thinking; should I really be setting this…

For the past half century working class Americans have watched as their economic status has been in decline. Manufacturing jobs went away. Labor unions…

Will anybody ever know us completely? Is it possible to admit everything about oneself? Aren't there always things one feels are impossible to reveal?…

Our upcoming November election is just around the corner and political campaigns are heating up. President Trump is creating an atmosphere of suspicion by…

Once upon a time authors went out on book tours. They would travel around the country and meet their readers in bookstores and libraries and all sorts of…

In 1998 Wally Lamb was on book tour to publicize his blockbuster novel "I Know This Much Is True." The novel had been catapulted to literary glory when it…

I did not realize that Shuly Xóchitl Cawood was a writer. I knew her dad was a writer and I had noticed her around the village of Yellow Springs on many…

When it comes to fiction Don Winslow can do it all. He has written some of my favorite novels. "Broken," his new collection of novellas, is a delightful…

In 2003 George Pelecanos was on a book tour that took him through Dayton. He came out to Yellow Springs to do a live interview. That was a memorable…