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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If you could go back in time to change a few things, would you do it? Philip King does just that in a delightful fantasy novel that's part sci-fi, part memoir. -
What did you do today? Oh, I was just hanging out with the Virgin Mary. How about you? Canadian author's novel about faith, friendship and miraculous encounters. -
The novelist Greg Iles died in August. He was 65. I revisited his first appearance on the program when we discussed his Natchez Burning trilogy and Southern racism. -
This human resources specialist was being totally professional until she began falling in love with her client. Oops. A workplace romance that became marriage. -
Thirty years ago when Cindy Fazzi wrote this novel about undocumented immigrants, no publisher would touch it. They said nobody would want to read it. How times changed. -
A new private eye series set in the Appalachian region kicks off with a search for two girls who vanished without a trace 10 years ago. Annie Gore investigates. -
Kay Hooper was a bestselling romance novelist when she visited WYSO for an interview 30 years ago. Plus C.J. McLin Jr.'s autobiography discussion with Dr. Minnie Johnson. -
An author's mother-in-law taught her valuable life lessons and fantastic recipes. This memoir explores Jewish heritage, kosher cooking, and spiritual revival. -
This interview with constitutional rights scholar David Cole was timely 22 years ago and seems even more pertinent today. Post-9/11 civil liberties and the Patriot Act. -
A longtime diplomat shares his insights into how sustained dialogues are key elements in engineering successful peace negotiations. Hear a Camp David Accords negotiator.
