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 2/23 - 3/15 1995 February 23, 1995: An Alan Cheuse Book Review: "The Polish Officer" by Alan Furst, published by Random House. February 25, 1995: Scott Simon spoke to the reporter/author: "Crews -- Gang Members Talk to Maria Hinojosa" by Maria Hinojosa, published by Harcourt Brace & Company. February 25, 1995: Jacki Lyden talked with one of the editors: "Can This Marriage Be Saved" by the editors of Ladies Home Journal, published by Workman Publishing. February 26, 1995: Liane Hansen spoke with the author: "The Diamond Age -- A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer" by Neal Stephenson, published by Bantam Books. February 26, 1995: Liane Hansen talked with the biographer: "You Send Me: The Life and Times of Sam Cooke" by Daniel Wolff, published by William Morrow and Co. February 28, 1995: Bob Edwards spoke with the writer: "Great Time Coming" by David Falkner, published by Simon and Schuster: A look at Jackie Robinson's contributions to civil rights. February 28, 1995: An Alan Cheuse Book Review: "American Tabloid" by James Ellroy, published by Knopf. March 1, 1995: Euan Kerr from Minnesota Public Radio reports on the writer: "How Late It Was, How Late" by James Kelman, published by W.W. Norton: A novel set in Glasgow, Scotland. March 2, 1995: Jim Metzner reviews the CD-ROM: "The Cosmology of Kyoto" available through Stonebridge Press (1-800-947-7271 or sbp@netcom.com): A journey through the landscape of the Japanese city. March 4, 1995: Daniel Zwerdling spoke with the author: "Life on the Color Line: The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He Was Black" by Gregory Williams, published by Dutton. March 5, 1995: Liane Hansen talked to the author: "Eyeball to Eyeball -- The Inside Story of the Cuban Missile Crisis" by Dino Brugioni, published by Random House. March 5, 1995: Liane Hansen spoke with the professor: "The DNA Mystique" by Dr. Dorothy Nelkin, published by W.H. Freeman and Company. March 5, 1995: Liane Hansen talked with the author: "Choosing the Right Camp -- A Complete Guide to the Best Summer Camp for Your Child" by Richard Kennedy, published by Times Books. March 5, 1995: Daniel Zwerdling spoke with the author: "Undercurrents: A Therapist's Reckoning with Her Own Depression" by Martha Manning, published by HarperSanFrancisco). March 6, 1995: Susan Stamberg visited the author at her home: "The Wedding" by Dorothy West, published by Doubleday: A novel set on Martha's Vineyard. March 6, 1995: Robert Siegel talked to the author: "Made in America" by Bill Bryson, published by Wm. Morrow and Co.: An informal history of the English language. March 9, 1995: Linda Wertheimer visited Thomas Nelson publishers, the largest printer of bibles in the United States. March 10, 1995: Linda Wertheimer remembered the author: "A Summons to Memphis" by Peter Taylor, published by Ballantine. March 11, 1995: Scott Simon spoke to the author: Suzanne Roshwalb is writing a biography of Edward Bernays, "The Father of Public Relations" who recently died. March 11, 1995: Scott Simon talked with the producer/director: "Out of Ireland: The Story of Irish Emigration to America" (companion book to the PBS series) by Kerby Miller and Paul Wagner, published by Elliott & Clark. March 11, 1995: Several stories and commemorations of the fiftieth anniversary of the author's death: "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank, published by Bantam. March 11, 1995: Daniel Zwerdling spoke with author: "Minding the Children: Childcare in America from Colonial Times to the Present" by Geraldine Youcha, published by Simon and Schuster. March 13, 1995: Noah Adams talked to the author: "How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe" by Thomas Cahill, published by Doubleday. March 15, 1995: An Alan Cheuse Book Review: "Water Witches" by Chris Bohjalian, published by University Press of New England. March 15, 1995: Poet Cathy Bowman introduced the poet as part of ATC's showcase: "Girly Pictures" by Hal Sirowitz, published by Low-Tech Press. Books profiled on Monitor Radio(R): February 24, 1995: Early Edition and Mid-Day Edition: "All Creatures Great and Small" by James Herriot, published by Bantam: Discussed as part of an obituary for the author. February 24, 1995: Mid-Day Edition: An interview with author David Jones whose biography of Alan Greenspan is "The Buck Starts Here," published by Prentice Hall. March 3, 1995: Mid-Day Edition: "The End of Victory Culture" by Tom Englehardt, published by Basic Books. March 10, 1995: Early Edition: "You Send Me: The Life and Times of Sam Cooke" by Daniel Wolff, published by William Morrow & Co. Books profiled on Fresh Air with host Terry Gross: February 23, 1995: "The Cunning Man" by Robertson Davies, published by Viking: A novel about a Toronto-based doctor during World War II. REVIEW by Book Critic Maureen Corrigan: "Terrible Honesty" by Ann Douglas, published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. February 24, 1995: "Dimensions of a Life" (Sierra Club Books), "Riprap & Cold Mountain Poems" (North Point Press), and "No Nature: New & Selected Poems" (Pantheon) by Gary Snyder. February 27, 1995: "Awakenings," "A Leg to Stand On," and "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" (all published by Harper) and "An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales" (Knopf) all by Oliver Sacks. March 1, 1995: "Among the Lowest of the Dead: The Culture of Death Row" by David Von Drehle, published by Times Books. March 2, 1995: "Breaking the Surface" by Greg Louganis, published by Random House. REVIEW by Maureen Corrigan: "The Polish Officer" by Alan Furst, published by Random House. March 3, 1995: "Hieronymus White: A Bird Who Believed That He Always Was Right" by Jeff Moss, published by Ballantine Books. March 6, 1995: "The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America" by David Whyte, published by Doubleday. March 7, 1995: "Middle Class Dreams: The Politics and Power of the New American Majority" by Stanley Greenberg, published by Times Books. "Night: Night Life, Night Language, Sleep, and Dreams" by A. Alvarez, published by W.W. Norton and Co.: A collection of poems. March 8, 1995: "Half a Revolution: Contemporary Fiction by Russian Women" by Masha Gessen, published by Cleis Press. "Rose" and "The City in Which I Love You" (published by Boa Editions) and "The Winged Seed" (Simon & Schuster) by Li-Young Lee: The first two are poetry collections and the latter is a memoir about his family's refugee experience in America. March 9, 1995: "Hellroaring: The Life and Times of a Fire Bum" by Peter Leschak, published by Northstar Press: He also wrote "Letters from Side Lake: A Chronicle of Life in the North Woods" (University of Minnesota Press) and "The Bear Guardian: Northwoods Tales and Meditations" (Northstar). March 10, 1995: "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston, published by Random House. "Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice: An Ethnobotanist Searches for New Medicines in the Amazon Rain Forest" by Mark Plotkin, published by Penguin Books. March 13, 1995: "Future Shock" (Bantam) and "Creating a New Civilization: The Politics of the Third Wave" (Turner Publishing) by Alan and Heidi Toffler. "Samuel Beckett" (Simon and Schuster), "Simone de Beauvoir" (Simon and Schuster), and "Anais Nin: A Biography" (G.P. Putnam) by Deirdre Bair. March 15, 1995: "Passover" by David Mamet, published by St. Martin's Hood. REVIEW by Maureen Corrigan: "The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition" by Anne Frank, published by Doubleday. Books mentioned on Soundings: --March 5, 1995: "The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States" by Cathy Davidson and Linda Wagner-Martin, published by Oxford University Press. --March 12, 1995: "The Good Negress" by A.J. Verdelle, published by Algonquin. Books mentioned on the People's Pharmacy, February 25, 1995: "Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice" by Mark Plotkin, published by Penguin Books. 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