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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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. -
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. -
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."
