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 9/16 - 9/22 1996 September 16, 1996: Matt Miller talked about the book: "Who's In Control" by Richard Darman, published by Simon and Schuster. September 16, 1996: Linda Wertheimer spoke with the rabbi: "The Sephardic Kitchen: The Healthy Food and Rich Culture of the Mediterranean Jews" by Robert Sternberg, published by HarperCollins. September 16, 1996: An Alan Cheuse Book Review: "The Last Thing He Wanted" by Joan Didion, published by Knopf. September 17, 1996: Talk of the Nation: "Democracy on Trial" by Jean Bethke Elshtain, published by Basic Books. "Miss Manners on (Painfully Proper) Weddings" by Judith Martin, published by Crown. September 17, 1996: Andrei Codrescu commented on the book: "Memories of a Catholic Girlhood" by Mary McCarthy, published by HBJ. September 17, 1996: Robert Siegel spoke to the lawyer: "Reasonable Doubt" by Alan Dershowitz, published by Simon & Schuster. September 18, 1996: Talk of the Nation: "Keys to the White House" by Alan Lichtman, published by Madison Books. "The Inheritance: How Three Families and America Moved from Roosevelt to Reagan and Beyond" by Samuel G. Freedman, published by Simon and Schuster. September 19, 1996: Robert Siegel talked with the writer: "The Winter's Hero" by Vassily Aksenov, published by Random House. September 19, 1996: Susan Stamberg offered a special report on the life and legacy of F. Scott Fitzgerald for the centennial of his birth. September 20, 1996: Neal Conan spoke to Chip Delaney about the author: "The Stars My Destination" by Alfred Bester, re-issued by Vintage Books. September 20, 1996: Linda Wertheimer talked to the author: "Smart Gun Technology Project Final Report" by Doug Weiss, publisher unknown. September 20, 1996: Commentator Mickey Edwards reflected on the book: "Slouching Towards Gomorrah" by Robert Bork, published by ReganBooks. September 21, 1996: Scott Simon chatted with the author: "On Gold Mountain" by Lisa See, published by Vintage: A chronicle of the author's Chinese-American family through an entire century. September 21, 1996: Poet Louis Jenkins read his work "Tumblin' Tumbleweeds". September 22, 1996: Walter Ray Watson visited the author in New Jersey: "Drown" by Junot Diaz, published by Riverhead Books: A collection of fiction. Books mentioned on Monitor Radio (R): September 16, 1996: "Mass Hate: The Global Rise of Genocide and Terror" by Neil Kressel, published by Plenum Press. September 18, 1996: "Great Books: My Adventures with Homer, Rousseau, Woolf, and Other Indestructible Writers of the Western World" by David Denby, published by Simon and Schuster. Books profiled on Fresh Air with host Terry Gross: September 16, 1996: "Rosa Lee: A Mother and Her Family in Urban America" by Leon Dash, published by Basic Books: He also wrote "When Children Want Children". September 17, 1996: "Picasso at the Lapin Agile and Other Plays" by Steve Martin, published by Grove Press: He also wrote "Cruel Shoes", a collection of short stories. September 18, 1996: "The Open Sore of a Continent: A Personal Narrative of the Nigerian Crisis" by Wole Soyinka, published by Oxford University Press. "Inside the Brain: Revolutionary Discoveries of How the Mind Works" by Ronald Kotulak, published by Andrews and McMeel: He also wrote "Unraveling the Mysteries of the Brain" and "Roots of Violence". September 19, 1996: Maureen Corrigan spoke to the author:"Great Books: My Adventures with Homer, Rousseau, Woolf, and Other Indestructible Writers of the Western World" by David Denby, published by Simon and Schuster. Books mentioned on Soundings, September 22, 1996: An interview with David Strand, the author of an upcoming book on leadership and political order in the People's Republic under Sun yat-Sen. Book review listings are available on the internet via anonymous ftp (sunsite.unc.edu /pub/academic/literature/book-reviews). 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.