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 8/24 - 8/30 1995 August 24, 1995: Noah Adams spoke with the writer: "Dark Sun:" by Richard Rhodes, published by Simon and Schuster: A look at how and why the hydrogen bomb was made. August 25, 1995: Brian Naylor traveled to a bookstore where the book was being signed: "To Renew America" by Newt Gingrich, published by HarperCollins. August 25, 1995: Alex Chadwick talked with the author: "The Good Negress" by A.J. Verdelle, published by Algonquin: A first novel about a teenager who is torn by the choices she has to make and by language. August 25, 1995: An Alan Cheuse Book Review: "The First Man" by Albert Camus, published by Knopf: The writer's final novel published 35 years after his death. August 27, 1995: Liane Hansen spoke with the author: "Protect and to Serve: The LAPD's Century of War in the City of Dreams" by Joe Domanick, published by Pocket Books. August 27, 1995: Liane Hansen talked with the journalist and columnist: "Sleeper Spy: A Novel of Deception" by William Safire, published by Random House. August 29, 1995: An Alan Cheuse Book Review: "Sabbath's Theater" by Phillip Roth, published by Houghton-Mifflin. August 30, 1995: Noah Adams talked to resident poet Cathy Bowman about the poet Elizabeth Spires. Her book "Worldling" will be published in November by Norton. Her most recent collection is "Annoncide", published by Penguin. Books profiled on Monitor Radio(R): August 28, 1995: Mid-Day Edition: "Sleeper Spy" by William Safire, published by Random House. Books profiled on Fresh Air with host Terry Gross: August 24, 1995: REVIEW by Maureen Corrigan: "The Intersection of Law and Desire" by J.M. Redmann, published by Norton and "The Beebo Brinker Chronicles" by Ann Bannon, published by Quality Paperback Book Club: The first book is about a feminist, lesbian private investigator and the second is a collection of lesbian pulp romances. August 25, 1995: An interview with actor Gabriel Byrne who is currently writing a memoir. August 29, 1995: "Fist, Stick, Knife, Gun: A Personal History of Violence in America" by Geoffrey Canada, published by Beacon Press. August 30, 1995: "Father Greg and the Homeboys" by Celeste Fremon, published by Hyperion: Father Gregory is a pastor in Los Angeles who works with Latino gang members trying to show them alternatives to lives of crime. Books reviewed by WUNC commentator Erica Eisdorfer, August 25, 1995: "Sacred Hunger", "The Rage of the Vulture", and "The Stone Virgin" by Barry Unsworth, published by W.W. Norton. Due this autumn, "Morality Play" published by Doubleday. 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.