Vick Mickunas
Book Nook
Listen to the Book Nook with Vick Mickunas for intimate conversations about books with the writers who create them. Vick Mickunas introduced the Book Nook author interview program for WYSO in 1994. Over the years, he has produced more than 1,700 interviews with writers, musicians, poets, politicians, and celebrities. He has interviewed historians such as Studs Terkel, David McCullough, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Simon Sebag Montefiore, and Gary Wills; politicians including Mario Cuomo, Sherrod Brown, George McGovern, John Kasich, Gary Hart, and Donald Trump; pundits such as Karl Rove, Ann Coulter,...
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Episodes
Book Nook: 'Man Overboard!' by Kathleen Rooney 10.07.2026 28:59
One of the most bizarrely entertaining mysteries of the summer.
Book Nook: 'Blunt Instrument' by Amy Bloom 10.07.2026 28:59
Amy Bloom returned to the program after a lengthy hiatus.
Book Nook: 'Whispers from Dark Waters' by David Franceschelli 09.07.2026 49:16
This former prosecutor is now writing legal thrillers.
Book Nook: 'Here Where We Stand-the Shawnee Springs Stories' by Ed Davis 08.07.2026 28:59
A collection of linked stories set in a community a lot like YellowSprings.
Book Nook: 'Rise Anyway - a Memoir of Survival, Fatherhood, and Becoming' by Brice Davis 08.07.2026 49:46
A writer publishes his first book and it is a good one.
Best of the Book Nook: 'Colors of the Mountain' by Da Chen 07.07.2026 49:26
Recalling the agonies of China's "Cultural Revolution" with a survivor'smemoir.
Best of the Book Nook: Remembering Tim Johnston who died on May 26 07.07.2026 28:59
Remembering a writer who left us far too soon.
Book Nook: 'Never Say Die' by Meredith Doench 06.07.2026 28:59
Every six years another six-year-old child disappears.
Book Nook: 'Abigail Trench - a Novel of Washington's Spy Ring' by Randy Overbeck 24.06.2026 28:59
A local novelist continues his ascent through the literary world.
Book Nook: 'To See Beyond' by Anna Badkhen 12.06.2026 28:59
They asked me: do you want to interview Anna again? Well, I always want to talk to Anna.
Book Nook: 'A Brief History of Hugh Taylor Birch and Helen Birch Bartlett' by Eric Johnson 12.06.2026 49:28
A history of Glen Helen in Yellow Springs and also a fabulous art collection.
Book Nook: An interview with Rubin Battino 05.06.2026 28:59
Rubin Battino has written many books during his long life.
Best of Book Nook: 'Breaking Clean' by Judy Blunt 03.06.2026 50:00
Sometimes a writer only has that one great book waiting to come out.
Best of Book Nook: 'The Deadly Groom-an Ohio/Arkansas True Crime Saga' by Joe Fenley 30.05.2026 50:12
A Dayton Daily News reporter who would not let go of a story.
Best of Book Nook: 'The Longevity Code" by Zorba Paster, M.D. 29.05.2026 28:59
Do you want to live a really long time? Here are some suggestions for how to do that.
Best of the Book Nook: 'The Great Big Book of Tomorrow' by Tom Tomorrow 22.05.2026 28:59
Revisiting an interview with the political cartoonist who calls himself Tom Tomorrow.
Best of Book Nook: 'For Bea: The Story of the Beagle that Changed my Life' by Kristin von Kreisler 15.05.2026 51:16
Do animals have feelings? Of course they do!
Book Nook: 'Bicycling through Dayton: 21 Historical Rides' by Kathleen Smythe 11.05.2026 28:59
The Dayton region is a bicyclists' paradise.
Best of Book Nook: 'Believing It All: What My Children Taught Me About Trout Fishing, Jelly Toast, and Life' 11.05.2026 50:09
Kids say the darnedest things.
Book Nook: 'Violent Masterpiece' by Jordan Harper 08.05.2026 28:59
A serial killer is roaming the streets of Hollywood.
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