Show overview
Book Nook has published 32 episodes during 2026. That works out to roughly 20 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a several-times-a-week cadence.
Episodes typically run thirty-five to sixty minutes — most land between 29 min and 50 min — though episode length varies meaningfully from one episode to the next. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-language Arts show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 2 days ago, with 32 episodes already out so far this year. Published by WYSO.
From the publisher
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, Ralph Nader, and Christopher Hitchens; broadcast journalists like Jim Lehrer, Robin MacNeil, Chris Wallace, Ken Bode, and Richard Threlkeld; movie stars including Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Peter Ustinov, Kevin Bacon, and Bruce Campbell; romance writers Nora Roberts and Janet Dailey; astronauts such as John Glenn, Buzz Aldrin, Tom Stafford, and Gene Cernan; diplomats including Richard Holbrooke and Jose Ramos Horta; humorists like Bill Bryson, Gary Shteyngart, Art Buchwald, Gail Collins, Dave Barry, Roz Chast, and Sarah Vowell; food writers including Amanda Hesser, Molly O'Neill, Michael Ruhlman, and Judith Jones; poets such as Galway Kinnell, Donald Hall, Nikki Giovanni, Billy Collins, Coleman Barks, Hanif Abdurraqib, and Shuly Cawood; crime writers like P.D. James, Sue Grafton, James Lee Burke, Louise Penny, Robert Crais, John Sandford, Don Winslow, Lawrence Block, Ian Rankin, Adrian McKinty, Lee Child, Walter Mosley, Ed McBain, and Philip Kerr; espionage novelists like Alan Furst, Mick Herron, and Olen Steinhauer; horror novelists including Clive Barker, Joe Hill, Stephen Graham Jones, Danielle Trussoni, and Paul Tremblay; and music legends from bands like The Animals, Duran Duran, Joy Division, The Doors, the Byrds, and The Rolling Stones.Vick Mickunas reviews books for the Dayton Daily News and the Springfield News Sun.
Latest Episodes
View all 32 episodesBest of Book Nook: 'For Bea: The Story of the Beagle that Changed my Life' by Kristin von Kreisler
Book Nook: 'Bicycling through Dayton: 21 Historical Rides' by Kathleen Smythe
Best of Book Nook: 'Believing It All: What My Children Taught Me About Trout Fishing, Jelly Toast, and Life'
Book Nook: 'Violent Masterpiece' by Jordan Harper
Book Nook: 'The Secret History of French Cooking' by Luke Barr
Book Nook: 'The Left and the Lucky' by Willy Vlautin
Book Nook: Celebrating National Poetry Month with the poet Shuly Xóchitl Cawood
Book Nook: 'Ghosts of Fourth Street - My Family, a Death, and the Hills of Duluth' by Laurie Hertzel
Best of the Book Nook: Remembering Coleman Barks and Luisa Lang Owen
Best of the Book Nook: 'Los Alamos' by Joseph Kanon
Best of the Book Nook: 'Hans von Ohain: Elegance in Flight' by Margaret Conner
Best of the Book Nook: 'Heartbreaker' by Julie Garwood
Best of the Book Nook: 'The Last Hostage' by John J. Nance
Taking a look back at the state of air transportation nearly thirtyyears ago. Has it improved since then?
Book Nook: 'The Delivery' by Andrew Welsh-Huggins
The second thriller in this dazzling new series does not disappoint.
Best of the Book Nook: 'The Kommandant's Mistress' and 'Only with the Heart' by Sherri Szeman
This author's first two novels were written under the pen name "Sherri Szeman."
Book Nook: 'The Rock 'N' Roll Haggadah' by Meredith Ochs, illustrated by Kay Miller
Passover begins on April 1 and some people will be observing it with arocking soundtrack.
Book Nook: 'Bone Valley' by Gilbert King
He spent over 30 years in a Florida prison for killing his wife. But hedidn't do it.
Book Nook: 'Heartland: a Forgotten Place, an Impossible Dream, and the Miracle of Larry Bird' by Keith O'Brien
The story of a basketball star who almost wasn't.
Book Nook: 'Escape to America' by David Truong
The story of how a family from Vietnam fled to America half a century ago.
Best of the Book Nook: 'Affluenza: How Overconsumption Is Killing Us and How to Fight Back' by John De Graaf
Did you know that we Americans are consuming 25% of the world's resources?