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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One of our greatest crime novelists makes an unexpected return with astory collection. -
The day an eminent gynecologist talked for an hour about sex on WYSO. -
Some of Jim Wilbur's stories took decades to write. -
This author's debut novel was a best seller that inspired a movie. -
She was a country singer in Chicago and also a woman of mystery. -
An interview from the archives with the author of the best-selling "God on a Harley." -
This interview from the Book Nook archive is a snapshot of time and history in the U.S. during early 202. -
Alex Heckman and Steve Lucht discuss 75 years of Carillon Historical Park history in Dayton. Plus a WYSO reunion with former Excursions engineer Steve Lucht. -
The top five Book Nook podcasts of 2025: Stephen J. Cannell, Laura Lippman, Andrew Welsh-Huggins, Indu Sundaresan, and Jeremy Jones. Plus Vick meets Joey Ramone. -
Vick Mickunas counts down the most popular Book Nook podcasts of 2025, featuring Urbana's Beth Macy, L. Annette Binder, Philip King, and a 2002 classic from the vault.
