Book Nook with Vick Mickunas

Rubin Battino has written many books during his long life.

Sometimes a writer only has that one great book waiting to come out.

A Dayton Daily News reporter who would not let go of a story.

Do you want to live a really long time? Here are some suggestions for how to do that.

Revisiting an interview with the political cartoonist who calls himself Tom Tomorrow.

Do animals have feelings? Of course they do!

The Dayton region is a bicyclists' paradise.

Kids say the darnedest things.

A serial killer is roaming the streets of Hollywood.

How nouvelle cuisine changed the way we look at restaurant menus.

A double dose of Willy Vlautin the double threat: musical, and literary.

In what has become a Book Nook tradition another poetry duel: Shuly Cawood vs. Vick Mickunas.

A memoir looking back at how a young girl remembers a tragic death inher family.

Remembering two former program guests who died recently, with my 2003 interviews for the book "Casualty of War-a Childhood Remembered" and "Rumi: The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing."

A debut crime novel that went on to win a prestigious Edgar Award.

A biography of the man who invented the turbojet engine.

This best-selling romance writer was experiencing a major change in hercareer.

Taking a look back at the state of air transportation nearly thirtyyears ago. Has it improved since then?

The second thriller in this dazzling new series does not disappoint.

This author's first two novels were written under the pen name "Sherri Szeman."

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.

Exploring the history of a monumental painting.

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.

The day an eminent gynecologist talked for an hour about sex on WYSO.

Amy Rigby's third visit to the program. Her first appearance was 30years ago.

Some of Jim Wilbur's stories took decades to write.

This author's debut novel was a best seller that inspired a movie.

She was a country singer in Chicago and also a woman of mystery.

An interview from the archives with the author of the best-selling "God on a Harley."

This interview from the Book Nook archive is a snapshot of time and history in the U.S. during early 202.

Alex Heckman and Steve Lucht discuss 75 years of Carillon Historical Park history in Dayton. Plus a WYSO reunion with former Excursions engineer Steve Lucht.

The top five Book Nook podcasts of 2025: Stephen J. Cannell, Laura Lippman, Andrew Welsh-Huggins, Indu Sundaresan, and Jeremy Jones. Plus Vick meets Joey Ramone.

Vick Mickunas counts down the most popular Book Nook podcasts of 2025, featuring Urbana's Beth Macy, L. Annette Binder, Philip King, and a 2002 classic from the vault.

Jack DuVall discusses "A Force More Powerful," exploring a century of nonviolent movements from Gandhi's India to Solidarity in Poland. Recorded in Yellow Springs, 1999.

Adam Davies discusses "The Frog King," his 2002 debut novel about a chaotic editorial assistant in New York publishing. The book made a lot of people in the industry mad.