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.
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John Sandford is our prolific sage of the thriller novel. -
Another reason she is one of my favorite writers. -
This Cold War academic espionage novel is the writer's debut. -
An interview from the archives with Ron Rollins. -
The first book by an author who was on the rise in 1998. -
She spent four years teaching poetry to inmates of a maximum securityprison. -
This thriller featured a serial killer. -
My only interview with a former Second Lady of the United States, Marilyn Quayle. -
An in depth conversation about our relationships with animals. -
The fascinating history of pro football in Ohio a century ago.
