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 4/20 - 4/26 1995 April 20, 1995: An Alan Cheuse Book Review: "Rule of the Bone" by Russell Banks, published by HarperCollins. April 21, 1995: Bob Mondello reviewed the movie based on the book: "Basketball Diaries" by Jim Carroll, published by Penguin. April 21, 1995: An Alan Cheuse Book Review: "Ladder of Years" by Anne Tyler, published by Knopf. April 22, 1995: Daniel Schorr spoke with the author: "In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam" by Robert McNamara, published by Time Books. April 23, 1995: Liane Hansen talked with the author: "Tales from the Jungle: A Rainforest Reader" edited by Daniel Katz and Miles Chabin, published by Crown Trade Paperbacks: A collection of fiction and non-fiction depicting changing views of the rainforest in the past two centuries. April 25, 1995: Susan Stamberg reported on a gathering in Atlanta of eight recipients of the Nobel Prize for literature in the "Cultural Olympiad". Among the attendees mentioned were: Toni Morrison, Derek Walcott, Wole Soyanka, Joseph Brodsky, Octavio Paz and Oe Kenzaburo. Books profiled on Monitor Radio(R): April 24, 1995: Mid-Day Edition: "In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam" by Robert McNamara, published by Time Books. Books profiled on Fresh Air with host Terry Gross: April 20, 1995: "Hard Evidence" by David Fisher, published by Simon & Schuster: An inside account of the FBI criminal laboratory. April 21, 1995: "Ball Four" by Jim Bouton, published by Macmillan. "Pure Baseball: Pitch by Pitch for the Advanced Fan" by Keith Hernandez, published by Harper. "Extra Innings" by Frank Robinson, published by McGraw-Hill (apparently out of print): A look at racism in baseball. April 24, 1995: "Constance", "Boat of Quiet Hours", "Let Evening Come", and "Otherwise" (due in 1996) by Jane Kenyon and Donald Hall, published by Greywolf Press: All are poetry collection and the first deals with Hall's surgery for and recovery from cancer. Kenyon died of leukemia Saturday. April 25, 1995: "In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam" by Robert McNamara, published by Time Books. April 26, 1995: REVIEW by Maureen Corrigan: "The Information" by Martin Amis, published by Crown Books. Book mentioned on Soundings, April 23, 1995: "The House of Percy" by Bertram Wyatt-Brown, published by Oxford University Press: A tale of honor, melancholy, and imagination in a Southern family. Book review listings 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.