Vick Mickunas
Host - Book NookVick Mickunas introduced the Book Nook author interview program for WYSO in 1994. Over the years he has produced more than 1500 interviews with writers, musicians, poets, politicians, and celebrities. Listen to the Book Nook with Vick Mickunas for intimate conversations about books with the writers who create them. Vick Mickunas reviews books for the Dayton Daily News and the Springfield News Sun.
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A scholar reflects upon his battle with alcohol while revealing his spiritual faith. Over 50 years of AA sobriety and Catholic renewal are explored in the memoir. -
A 21-year-old aspiring screenwriter from Dayton has published her first book. Shamya Sumlin's memoir chronicles loss, resilience, and generational trauma. -
You can take the boy out of Wapakoneta, but you can never take Wapakoneta out of this now 75-year-old man. Essays spanning Ohio, Argentina, and Patagonia. -
My latest conversation with the eminent wordsmith Stefan Fatsis. The Word Freak author discusses dictionaries, Merriam-Webster and how language evolves online. -
One of the hottest books in the country is a memoir about growing up in Urbana, Ohio. Beth Macy explores family, political division and paths to healing. -
The Domingo the Bounty Hunter series kicks off with the simultaneous release of the first two books in this series by Filipino-American author Cindy Fazzi. -
John E. Fleming was an influential member of our Yellow Springs community. His Peace Corps memoir and Ruth Paine's JFK assassin connection are revisited in this episode. -
Thomas Perry was one fantastic crime fiction writer. This tribute revisits three interviews about his final novels before his death on Sept. 15, 2025 at age 78. -
This story collection transforms itself into one heckuva novel about a baseball-obsessed family in Maine, plus a 1998 interview about African Americans in golf history. -
A runner's memoir by a man who has run marathons on every continent. Bob Welbaum shares his adventures from Antarctica to the Great Wall of China at age 77.
