This booklist reflects the programming of WUNC Radio: All Things Considered, Morning Edition, Weekend Edition Saturday and Sunday, Fresh Air, The People's Pharmacy and Soundings. NPR(TM) BOOK REVIEWS FROM WUNC RADIO 8/25 - 8/31 1994 August 25, 1994: Bob Edwards talked with the author: "Cuba on the Brink" by James Blight, published by Pantheon: The history of US-Cuban relations. August 25, 1994: Alan Cheuse Book Review: "Home and Away" by Joanne Meschery, published by Simon & Schuster. August 27, 1994: Scott Simon spoke with the biographer: "George Wallace: American Populist" by Stephen Lesher, published by Addison-Wesley: A biography of one of America's most controversial politicians. August 27, 1994: Jackie Lyden spoke to the author and he read from some of his book: "Waterworks" by E.L. Doctorow, published by Random House. August 28, 1994: Liane Hansen talked to the authors: "A Talent for Genius" by Sam Kashner and Nancy Shoenberger, published by Random House: A biography of Oscar Levant. August 29, 1994: The commentator did a piece on siblings: "Telling" by Marion Winik, published by Random House: No description available. August 29, 1994: Noah Adams spoke with the compilers: "The Skeleton Key" by David Shenk and Steve Silberman, published by Doubleday: The dictionary for the Grateful Dead fan. August 30, 1994: Euen Kerr reported on the new novelist: "Swing Hammer Swing" by Jeff Torrington, published by Harcourt Brace: A novel that took the retired Scottish auto mechanic 30 years to write and is being compared by critics to the works of James Joyce. "August 30, 1994: Alan Cheuse Book Review: "And All Our Wounds Forgiven" by Julius Lester, published by Arcade. August 31, 1994: Alex Chadwick talked with the reporter/author: "The I.R.A." by Eaman Malley, publisher unknown. August 31, 1994: Alex Chadwick spoke with the author: "The American Connection: U.S. Guns, Money and Influence in Northern Ireland" by Jack Holland, publisher unknown. Books profiled on Fresh Air with host Terry Gross: August 25, 1994: "Population Policies Reconsidered" by Adrienne Germain, published by Harvard University Press. August 29, 1994: "Dale Loves Sophie to Death" (Harper Perennial), "Fortunate Lives" (Harper Perennial), and "The Family Heart" (Addison-Wesley) all by Robb Forman Dew: The first two are novels about families, the third is a non-fiction memoir of her son's revelation that he is gay. "Thank You For Smoking" by Christopher Buckley, published by Random House: A satire of the tobacco industry. August 30, 1994: "How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter" by Dr. Sherwin Nuland, published by Knopf. "Barrel Fever" by David Sedaris, published by Little, Brown and Company: A collection of stories and essays by the sometimes playwright, NPR commentator and Santa's elf. August 31, 1994: "Shot in the Heart" by Mikal Gilmore, published by Doubleday: An account of his dysfunctional family which produced Gary Gilmore who was executed by the state of Utah for murder in the late 1970s. Books mentioned on The People's Pharmacy, August 27, 1994: "Dance of Anger" (HarperCollins), "Dance of Intimacy" (Harper & Row) and "Dance of Deception" (HarperCollins) all by Harriet Lerner. Book mentioned on Soundings, August 28, 1994: "Big Time Football at Harvard 1905" edited by Ronald Smith, published by University of Illinois Press: The diary of Coach Bill Reid. Book reviews are available on the internet via anonymous ftp (sunsite.unc.edu /pub/academic/literature/book-reviews) and by gopher to sunsite.unc.edu under the NEWS! option. This text is Copyright (c) 1994 by WUNC Radio (WUNCRADIO@UNC.EDU) and Erika Grams (compiler). All Rights Reserved. Permission is granted by the copyright holder to distribute this file electronically or otherwise in full as long as attribution is made.