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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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. -
The fourth book in a series about a teacher who can see ghosts tackles the crisis of missing and murdered indigenous women in a Michigan resort town setting. -
A fantastic year for crime novels gets even better with this latest one from Lou Berney. The Mercurio family flees Vegas for Oklahoma City in this entertaining tale. -
These secret diaries from the first half of the 19th century were never meant to be discovered. When a descendant found them, it was quite a surprise to everyone. -
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.
