Vick Mickunas
Host - Book NookVick Mickunas created the Book Nook author interview program for WYSO in 1994. Over three decades, he has produced more than 1,700 interviews, building one of the largest literary interview archives in public radio.
His guests have included historians Studs Terkel, David McCullough, and Doris Kearns Goodwin; astronauts John Glenn, Buzz Aldrin, and Gene Cernan; crime writers P.D. James, Sue Grafton, Lee Child, and Walter Mosley; politicians Mario Cuomo, George McGovern, and Donald Trump; broadcast journalists Jim Lehrer and Robin MacNeil; poets Nikki Giovanni, Billy Collins, and Hanif Abdurraqib; and music figures from The Rolling Stones, The Doors, Joy Division, and Duran Duran.
Mickunas is a book critic for the Dayton Daily News and the Springfield News-Sun.
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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.
