This list reflects the programming of WUNC Radio: All Things Considered, Morning Edition, Weekend Edition Saturday and Sunday, Fresh Air, Monitor Radio Early and Daily Edition, The People's Pharmacy and Soundings. NPR(TM) BOOK REVIEWS FROM WUNC RADIO 1/5 - 1/11, 1995 January 5, 1995: An Alan Cheuse Book Review: "Open Water" by Maria Flook, published by Pantheon. January 7, 1995: Scott Simon spoke with the author: "Last Train to Memphis -- The Rise of Elvis Presley" by Peter Guralnick, published by Little, Brown. January 7, 1995: Daniel Zwerdling talked with the author about the reasons Verdi wrote about father-daughter relationships: "Opera 101" by Fred Plotkin, published by Hyperion. January 8, 1995: Daniel Schorr discussed two recent books about the KGB: "My Five Cambridge Friends" by Yuri Modin, published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. "Washington Station: My Life as a KGB Spy in America" by Yuri Shvets, published by Simon & Schuster. January 8, 1995: David Barnett reported on the life and work of author Dawn Powell who Gore Vidal called (in 1987) "our best comic novelist." Two of her books are "A Time to Be Born" (Yarrow Press) and "The Bridges' House" (Random House). January 8, 1995: Liane Hansen continued her conversation with the author: "A Marginal Jew -- Rethinking the Historical Jesus" and "Mentor, Message, and Miracles" by Father John P. Meier, published by Doubleday. January 9, 1995: Bob Edwards spoke with Dick Butkus who wrote the introduction: "Seventy-five Seasons: The Complete Story of the National Football League" edited by Will McDonugh, published by Turner Publishing. January 11, 1995: An Alan Cheuse Book Review: "Random Acts of Senseless Violence" by Jack Womack, published by Grove/Atlantic. Books profiled on Fresh Air with host Terry Gross: January 6, 1995: "The Fever" by Wallace Shawn, published by Noonday Press: A monologue about a well-to-do man coming to grips with the world's poverty. January 10, 1995: "Salvation on Sand Mountain" by Dennis Covington, published by Addison-Wesley: A look at snake-handling in a Southern Appalachian church. "Vanessa Redgrave -- An Autobiography" by Vanessa Redgrave, published by Random House. REVIEW by Maureen Corrigan: "The Paperboy" by Pete Dexter, published by Random House. January 11, 1995: "Radical Surgery" by Joseph Califano, published by Random House: A look at health care reform. "The Limits of Medicine" by Edward Golub, published by Random House: A history of medical advances in the United States. Books mentioned on Soundings: --January 7, 1995: "A Whole New Life" by Reynolds Price, published by Athenaeum. --January 8, 1995: "The Cage" by Audrey Schulman, published by Algonquin. Books reviewed by WUNC commentator Erica Eisdorfer on January 9, 1995: She could not finish: "Hotel Pastis" by Peter Mayle, published by Knopf. "The English Patient" by Michael Ondaatje, published by Vintage. "The Crossing" by Cormac McCarthy, published by Knopf because of all the Spanish. She recommends: "A Year in Provence" and "Toujours Provence" by Peter Mayle, published by Knopf. "Sacred Hunger" by Barry Unsworth, published by Norton. "All the Pretty Horses" by Cormac McCarthy, published by Knopf (first book in the Border Trilogy). 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) 1995 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.