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 4/29 - 5/5 1996 April 29, 1996: Talk of the Nation: "Pensions in Crisis: Why the System Is Failing America and How You Can Protect Your Future" by Karen Ferguson, published by Arcade Publishing. "False Impressions: The Hunt for Big-Time Art Fakes" by Thomas Hoving, published by Simon and Schuster. April 29, 1996: Dean Olsher spoke to Artie Shaw about his previous life as a musician and current life as a novelist and short story writer. April 29, 1996: Noah Adams spoke with poetry critic Cathy Bowman about the poet: "Avalanche" by Quincy Troupe, published by Coffee House Press. April 30, 1996: An Alan Cheuse Book Review: "The Book of Secrets" by M.G. Vassanji, published by Picador. April 30, 1996: Robert Siegel talked with the Israeli writer: "Open Heart" by A.B. Yehoshua, published by Doubleday. May 1, 1996: Bob Edwards spoke with the authors: "At Your Own Risk: An American Chronicle of Crisis and Captivity in the Middle East" by Tom and Jean Sutherland, published by Fulcrum Publishing. May 1, 1996: Talk of the Nation: "Critical Theory, Marxism, and Modernity" by Douglas Kellner, published by Johns Hopkins University. "Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare" by Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward, published by Vintage. May 1, 1996: Robert Siegel spoke with the editorial director of Webster's New World College Dictionary about some of the words (like 'duh') which are being considered for the next edition. May 1, 1996: Noah Adams talked with the photographer: "Mother" by Judy Olausen, published by Penguin Group: A collection of photographs featuring her 74-year old mother in unusual poses. May 2, 1996: Dean Olsher reported on the rediscovery of the manuscript "The Inheritance" by Louisa May Alcott. May 2, 1996: Bob Edwards spoke with the book's editor: "Minutes of the Lead Pencil Club: Pulling the Plug on the Electronic Revolution" edited by Bill Henderson, published by Pushcart Press/WW Norton. May 2, 1992: Talk of the Nation: "Combat: Twelve Years in the U.S. Senate" by Warren Rudman, published by Random House. May 2,, 1996: Noah Adams talked with the author: "The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power" by Daniel Yergin, published by Simon and Schuster. May 2, 1996: Noah Adams chatted with the author: "Yellow Dogs, Hushpuppies, Bluetick Hounds: The Official Encyclopedia of Southern Culture" by Lisa Howarth, published by UNC Press. May 3, 1996: Alex Chadwick report on the 50th anniversary of the book's U.S. publication: "Animal Farm" by George Orwell, published by Harcourt-Brace. May 3, 1996: Talk of the Nation: "The Demon-Haunted World" by Carl Sagan, published by Random House. May 3, 1996: Noah Adams spoke with two of the poet's friends and colleagues about her posthumously published collection: "Otherwise" by Jane Kenyon, published by Graywolf Press. May 4, 1996: Scott Simon talked with the columnist: "Wake Up and Smell the Coffee" by Ann Landers, published by Villard Books. May 4, 1996: Scott Simon spoke to the editor: "Sing Your Heart Out, Country Boy", revised edition, edited by Paul Kingsberry, published by the Country Music Foundation: The inside stories of country songs. May 5, 1996: Daniel Zwerdling talked with the author: "The Temple Bombing" by Melissa Fay Greene, published by Addison-Wesley: A look at the implications of the October 1958 bombing of a prominent Jewish Synagogue in the Atlanta area and the unique predicament of Southern Jews in the Civil Rights era. Books profiled on Fresh Air with host Terry Gross: April 29, 1996: "Living the Dream: My Life and Basketball" by Hakeem Olajuwon, published by Little, Brown. "Value at the Top: Solutions to the Executive Compensation Crisis" by Ira Kay, published by HarperCollins. April 30, 1996: "Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris" by Richard Kluger, published by Knopf. May 1, 1996: "How Stella Got Her Groove Back" by Terry McMillan, published by Viking: She also wrote "Waiting to Exhale". "The Best of Vietnamese and Thai Cooking: Favorite Recipes from the Lemon Grass Restaurant and Cafes" by Mai Pham, published by Prima. May 2, 1996: "Shamans, Software, and Spleen: Law and the Construction of the Information Society" by James Boyle, published by Harvard University Press. "Growing Up With Language" by Naomi S. Baron, published by Addison-Wesley. COMMENTARY by Gerald Early on "The Future of Race" by Henry Louis Gates and Cornel West, published by . May 3, 1996: "After All" by Mary Tyler Moore, published by Putnam. Book mentioned on Soundings, May 5, 1996: "Closest Companion" by Geoffrey Ward, published by Houghton-Mifflin: The unknown story of the intimate friendship between FDR and Margaret Suckley. 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.