This list reflects the programming of WUNC Radio: All Things Considered, Morning Edition, Talk of the Nation, Weekend Edition Saturday and Sunday, Fresh Air, Monitor Radio Early Edition, The People's Pharmacy and Soundings. NPR(TM) BOOK REVIEWS FROM WUNC RADIO 4/22 - 4/28 1996 April 22, 1996: David Molpus looked at the problem of abusive bosses and talked with the authors of two books: "The Slam and Scream Strategy (And Other Powerful Strategies and Great Career Moves for Secretaries, Assistants, and Anyone Else Who Has Had Enough)" by Carole Fungaroli, published by Noonday Press. "Brutal Bosses and Their Prey" by Harvey Hornsteen, published by Riverhead Books. April 22, 1996: Talk of the Nation: "The American Family: Discovering the Values That Make Us Strong" and "Standing Firm" by Dan Quayle, published by HarperCollins. "On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in Life and Society" by David Grossman, published by Little, Brown. "Hiroshima in America: 50 Years of Denial" (Putnam) and "Home From the War: Learning From Vietnam Veterans" (Beacon Press) by Robert Jay Lifton. April 23, 1996: Talk of the Nation: "The Game That Was: The George Brace Photo Collection" by George Cahan and Mark Jacob, published by Contemporary Books: Photos of baseball covering more than sixty years. April 23, 1996: An Alan Cheuse Book Review: "The Debt to Pleasure" by John Lancaster, published by Henry Holt: A murder mystery in the form of a cookbook. April 24, 1996: A continuation of the series on the English-Only movement: "Alien Nation" by Peter Brimelow, published by Random House. "Fresh Blood: The New American Immigrants" by Sandford Ungar, published by Simon and Schuster. April 25, 1996: Alex Chadwick spoke with the author: "The Song of the Dodo" by David Quammen, published by Scribner: A look at evolution and extinction on islands, including habitats surrounded by an inhospitable area. April 25, 1996: Tom Vitale profiled the Pulitzer-Prize winning poet: "Passing Through" by Stanley Kunitz, published by Norton. April 25, 1996: Talk of the Nation: "The Wasteland" by T.S. Eliot. "Lajja (Shame)" (Penguin) and "The Game in Reverse" (George Braziller, Inc.) by Taslima Nasrin. April 25, 1996: Charlotte Renner of Maine Public Radio reported on the book: "The Raven" by Peter Landesman, published by Baskerville Publishers: Based on a true 1941 mysterious shipwreck off the Maine coast, the book has rekindled old animosities about who was to blame. April 26, 1996: Alex Chadwick talked with the editor: "Best of the South" edited by Shannon Ravena, published by Algonquin Books: A collection of short stories chosen from the past ten installments of "New Stories from the South" also published by Algonquin. April 26, 1996: An Alan Cheuse Book Review: "Mangos, Bananas, and Coconuts" by Himilse Novas, published by Arte Publico: Fraternal twins separated at birth, magic, miracles, and the Cuban culture. April 27, 1996: A special report by Peter Breslow about the town (Monroeville, Alabama) which featured as the basis of the book: "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee. April 27, 1996: Neal Conan interviewed the poet laureate of accountants, Keith Warnock. April 27, 1996: Neal Conan spoke with the classicist: "Fields Without Dreams" by Victor Davis Hanson, published by Simon and Schuster: The author feels the decline in family farming in America is a threat to our cultural legacy. April 28, 1996: Liane Hansen talked with the author: "Above the Law: Secret Deals, Political Fixes, and Other Misadventures of the U.S. Department of Justice" by David Burnham, published by Scribner. Apirl 28, 1996: Liane Hansen spoke to the playwright: "Pamela's First Musical" by Wendy Wasserstein, published by Hyperion Books. April 28, 1996: Daniel Zwerdling spoke to the writer: "The Good Life and Its Discontents: The American Dream in the Age of Entitlement, 1945-1995" by Robert Samuelson, published by Times Books. Books profiled on Fresh Air with host Terry Gross: April 22, 1996: "Chronicles of Courage: Very Special Artist" by George Covington, published by Random House. April 23, 1996: "The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson, & Issa", "Praise", and "Human Wishes" (the latter two are volumes of poetry) by Robert Hass, published by Ecco Press. "In the Name of Sorrow and Hope" by Noa Ben Artzi-Pelossof, published by Knopf: A memoir of her grandfather Yitzhak Rabin. April 24, 1996: "Altars" and "Mapplethorpe" by Robert Mapplethorpe, published by Random House. "The Coral Sea" by Patti Smith, published by W.W. Norton. REVIEW by Maureen Corrigan: "Last Orders" by Graham Swift, published by Knopf. April 25, 1996: "The Old Life" by Donald Hall, published by Houghton Mifflin. "Otherwise: New and Selected Poems" by Jane Kenyon, published by Graywolf Press. April 26, 1996: "The Official NBA Encyclopedia, Second Edition" with a forward by Julius Erving, published by Villard Books. 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.