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. Please note: The next list, covering July 29-August 17, will be sent out the week of August 18. NPR(TM) BOOK REVIEWS FROM WUNC RADIO 7/15 - 7/28 1996 July 15, 1996: Commentator David Crystal talked about the language in Jane Austen's writing. July 16, 1996: Talk of the Nation: "A Man's World: How Real Is Male Privilege and How High Is Its Price?" (HarperCollins) and "The Rage of a Privileged Class" (HarperPerennial) by Ellis Cose. "The Content of Our Characters" by Shelby Steele, published by St. Martin's Press (hb), HarperCollins (pb). "Dream City: Race, Power, and the Decline of Washington, DC" by Harry Jaffe, published by Simon and Schuster. July 16, 1996: Linda Wertheimer spoke with the author: "Michael Sivy's Rules of Investing: How to pick stocks like a pro" by Michael Sivy, published by Warner Brothers. July 17, 1996: Talk of the Nation: "Waking From the Dream: My Life in the Black Middle Class" by Sam Fulwood, published by Anchor. "Get a Financial Life" by Beth Kobliner, published by Simon and Schuster. July 21, 1996: Liane Hansen chatted with the author: "Where Peachtree Meets Sweet Auburn" by Gary Pomerantz, published by Scribner. July 21, 1996: Liane Hansen spoke to the author: "The End of Science: Facing the Limits of Knowledge in the Twilight of the Scientific Age" by John Horgan, published by Addison Wesley. July 23, 1996: Talk of the Nation: "Crazy for Corn" by Betty Fussell, published by HarperCollins. July 23, 1996: Robert Siegel spoke with the author about speculation that a surface to air missile downed TWA Flight 800: "Jane's Land Based Air-Defense" by Christopher Floss, published by Jane's Information Group. July 24, 1996: Neal Churchman reported on the author's death: "The American Way of Death" by Jessica Mitford, published by Buccaneer Books. July 25, 1996: Talk of the Nation: "A Turn in the South" by V.S. Naipaul, published by Random House. "Imagineering Atlanta: The politics of place in the city of dreams" by Charles Rutheiser, published by Verso. July 25, 1996: Robert Siegel and Linda Wertheimer read from the Bhagavad-Gita, the classic of Vedic literature. July 26, 1996: Euan Kerr spoke to the author: "Train-spotting" by Irvine Welsh, published by W. W. Norton. July 26, 1996: An Alan Cheuse Book Review: "Palinuro of Mexico" by Fernando del Paso, translated by Elisabeth Plenister, published by Dalkey Archive. July 27, 1996: Susan Stamberg spoke with the author: "An Island Out of Time: A memoir of Smith Island in the Chesapeake" by Tom Horton, published by W.W. Norton. July 28, 1996: Liane Hansen talked to the novelist and the cartoonist who collaborated on the book: "archyology: the long lost tales of archy and mehitabel" by Jeff Adams and Ed Fracino, published by University Press of New England. July 28, 1996: Liane Hansen chatted with the automotive expert: "Lucille's Car Care Clinic" by Lucille Treganowan, published by Hyperion. July 28, 1996: Daniel Zwerdling spoke with the professor: "Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences" by Howard Gardner, published by HarperCollins/Basic Books. Books mentioned on Fresh Air with host Terry Gross: July 15, 1996: "Stranger Among Friends" by David Mixner, published by Bantam Books. REVIEW by Maureen Corrigan: "Derby Dugan's Depression Funnies" by Tom De Haven, published by Metropolitan Books. July 17, 1996: "Thoughts Without a Thinker: Psychotherapy from a Buddhist Perspective" by Mark Epstein, published by Basic Books. July 18, 1996: "Modern American Religion, Volume 3: Under God, Indivisible, 1946-1960" by Martin E. Marty, published by University of Chicago Press. REVIEW by Maureen Corrigan: "The Power of Beauty" by Nancy Friday, published by HarperCollins. July 22, 1996: "Black Power White Blood: The Life and Times of Johnny Spain" by Johnny Spain, published by Pantheon Books. July 24, 1996: "All I Want Is A Good Night's Sleep" by Sonia Ancoli-Israel, published by Mosby-Year Book. July 25, 1996: "The Last Don" by Mario Puzo, published by Random House, September 1996: He also wrote "The Godfather", "The Fortunate Pilgrim", and "The Dark Arena". July 26, 1996: "The American Way of Death" (Buccaneer Books) and "Kind and Usual Punishment: The Prison Business" (out of print) by Jessica Mitford. "Paula" by Isabel Allende, published by HarperCollins: She also wrote "The House of Spirits" and "Of Love and Shadows". Books mentioned on Soundings: July 21, 1996: "Best of the South: From ten years of New Stories from the South" by Richard Bausch and Shannon Ravenel, published by Algonquin. July 28, 1996: "Killing the White Man's Indian: Reinventing Native Americans at the end of the twentieth century" by Fergus Bordewich, 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) 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.