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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Passover begins on April 1 and some people will be observing it with arocking soundtrack. -
He spent over 30 years in a Florida prison for killing his wife. But hedidn't do it. -
The story of a basketball star who almost wasn't. -
The story of how a family from Vietnam fled to America half a century ago. -
Did you know that we Americans are consuming 25% of the world's resources? -
This is quite possibly the first book ever published by a sheet metalworker. -
My favorite crime novel of 2026 so far is this one. -
Celebrating 30 years of interviews with a legendary crime writer. -
A Book Nook flashback to the infancy of online shopping 24 years ago. -
One of our greatest crime novelists makes an unexpected return with astory collection.
