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 5/27 - 6/2 1996 May 27, 1996: Talk of the Nation: A review of books for summer reading. Unfortunately, the list was not made available. "My First White Friend" by Howard Winant, published by Viking/Penguin. May 27, 1996: An Alan Cheuse Book Review: "Chance" by Steve Shilstone, published by Breakaway Books: A novel about a baseball player who also writes poetry. May 28, 1996: Linda Wertheimer spoke with the author: "Rose" by Martin Cruz Smith, published by Random House: A mystery set in an 1870's mining town in England about a "pit girl" who chooses to wear pants on the job. May 28, 1996: Noah Adams talked with the novelist: "The Rosewood Casket" by Sharyn McCrumb, published by Dutton. May 29, 1996: Bob Edwards spoke with the author: "Blood Sport" by James Stewart, published by Simon & Schuster. May 29, 1996: Talk of the Nation: "America's Dream" by Esmeralda Santiago, published by HarperCollins. "Mangoes, Bananas, and Coconuts" by Hilmice Novas, published by Arte Publico. May 30, 1996: Bob Edwards spoke with the authors: "The Murrow Boys: Pioneers on the Front Lines of Broadcast Journalism" by Stanley Cloud and Lynne Olson, published by Houghton-Mifflin. May 30, 1996: Talk of the Nation: "Things Fall Apart" by Chinua Achebe, published by Anchor Books. "The African Experience in Literature and Ideology" by Abiola Irele, published by Indiana University Press. "Smoke and Mirrors: The War on Drugs and the Politics of Failure" by Dan Baum, published by Little, Brown. May 31, 1996: Talk of the Nation: "The End of Science: Facing the limits of knowledge in the twilight of the scientific age" by John Horgan, published by Addison-Wesley. "Fire in the Mind: Science, faith, and the search for order" by George Johnson, published by Knopf. May 31, 1996: Noah Adams talked to the ethnomusicologist: "The Musician's Joke Book: Knowing the Score" by Nancy Groce, published by Schirmer Books. June 1, 1996: Scott Simon spoke with the automotive engineer: "Carriages Without Horses" by Richard Scharchburg, published by Society of Automotive Engineers. June 1, 1996: Scott Simon talked to the novelist: "I Was Amelia Earhart" by Jane Mendelsohn, published by Alfred Knopf. June 1, 1996: Cheryl Corley reported from Chicago on an exhibition of Dick and Jane books. June 1, 1996: A report from the Eugene O'Neill National Historic Site in California about the site making available the only recording of O'Neill reading his play "Long Day's Journey Into Night". June 2, 1996: Susan Stamberg spoke with the children's author: "Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales" and "When Birds Could Talk and Bats Could Sing" by Virginia Hamilton, published by Blue Sky Press/Scholastic. Books profiled on Fresh Air with host Terry Gross: May 27, 1996: "True Blue: The Real Stories Behind NYPD Blue" by David Milch and Bill Clark, published by William Morrow. "Riding the Rap", "Pronto", "Maximum Bob", and "Get Shorty" by Elmore Leonard, published by Dell. May 28, 1996: "Man to Man: Surviving Prostate Cancer" by Michael Korda, published by Random House. May 29, 1996: "The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark" by Carl Sagan, published by Random House. May 30, 1996: "Nightline: History in the Making and the Making of Television" by Ted Koppel, published by Times Books. May 31, 1996: "A Most Remarkable Fella" by Susan Loesser, published by Donald I. Fine: A memoir of her father, composer Frank Loesser. 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.