NPR(TM) BOOK REVIEWS FROM WUNC RADIO 2/5 - 2/11/96 February 5, 1996: Noah Adams spoke to the author: "The Unkindest Cut: How a Hatchetman Critic Made His Own $7000 Movie and Put It All On His Credit Card" by Joe Queenan, published by Hyperion. February 6, 1996: Talk of the Nation: "Orson Welles: The Road to Xanadu" by Simon Callow, published by Viking. "Anne Sexton: A Biography" by Diane Wood Middlebrook, published by Vintage Books. "Lincoln" by David Herbert Donald, published by Simon & Schuster. "Democracy on Trial" by Jean Bethke Elshtain, published by Basic Books. February 6, 1996: An Alan Cheuse Book Review: "The Here and Now" by Robert Cohen, published by Scribners. February 6, 1996: Robert Siegel spoke with the author: "Not Out of Africa: How Afrocentrism became an Excuse to Teach Myth as History" by Mary Lefkowitz, published by Basic Books. February 7, 1996: In association with a story on quarks, a reading from "The Cat in the Hat Comes Back" by Dr. Seuss. February 9, 1996: Robert Siegel talked to the author: "Stocks for the Long Run" by Jeremy Siegel, published by Irwin. February 9, 1996: Robert Siegel talked with Catherine Bowman about the poetry of Czeslaw Milosz. February 9, 1996: An Alan Cheuse Book Review: "Death in the Andes" by Mario Vargas Llosa, published by Farrar, Straus, & Giroux. February 10, 1996: Scott Simon spoke with the author: "The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison" edited by John F. Callahan, published by Modern Library. February 10, 1996: Daniel Zwerdling talked with two lawyers about the lawsuit against the book's publisher: "The Hit Man: A Technical Manual for Independent Contractors" by Rex Feral, published by Paladin. February 10, 1996: Daniel Zwerdling chatted with the book's author: "Wild Meat and Bully Burgers" by Lois Ann Yamanaka, published by Farrar, Straus, & Giroux: It's loosely based on her own life as a Japanese-American growing up in Hawaii. February 11, 1996: Liane Hansen spoke with the historian: "We All Got History: The Memory Books of Amos Webber" by Nick Salvatore, published by Times Books: The diaries of a black janitor, covering the period 1854-1904. February 11, 1996: Liane Hansen talked to the author: "Falling From Grace: Can Pro Basketball Be Saved?" by Terry Pluto, published by Simon & Schuster. February 11, 1996: A reading of the poem "Object of Desire", written by Mark O'Brien. Books mentioned on Monitor Radio(R): February 5, 1996: "The Moor's Last Sigh" by Salman Rushdie, published by Pantheon. Books profiled on Fresh Air with host Terry Gross: February 5, 1996: "Storming the Gates: Protest Politics and the Republican Revival" by Ronald Brownstein, published by Little, Brown, and Company. "Straight Life" by Art and Laurie Pepper, published by Da Capo Press: An updated version of Art's autobiography. February 6, 1996: "The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of American Politics" by Dan T. Carter, published by Simon & Schuster: He also wrote "Scottsboro: A Tragedy of the American South" (Easton Press). February 7, 1996: "Ron Popeil: The Salesman of the Century" by Ron Popeil and Jefferson Graham, published by Delacorte Press. REVIEW by Maureen Corrigan: "Primary Colors: A Novel of Politics" by anonymous, published by Random House. February 8, 1996: "Dancing on the Ceiling: Stanley Donen and His Movies" by Stephen M. Silverman, published by Knopf. February 9, 1996: "My Point ... and I Do Have One" by Ellen DeGeneres, published by Bantam. 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) 1996 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.