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 Dayton obstetrician introduces her first novel on WYSO. -
Remembering the author of a monumental three volume history of New York. -
A diarist of Anne Frank also looked at the life of her father, Otto Frank. -
Amy Bloom returned to the program after a lengthy hiatus. -
One of the most bizarrely entertaining mysteries of the summer. -
This former prosecutor is now writing legal thrillers. -
A collection of linked stories set in a community a lot like YellowSprings. -
A writer publishes his first book and it is a good one. -
Recalling the agonies of China's "Cultural Revolution" with a survivor'smemoir. -
Every six years another six-year-old child disappears.
