NPR(TM) BOOK REVIEWS FROM WUNC RADIO 9/30 - 10/6 1996 September 30, 1996: An Alan Cheuse Book Review: "We Were the Mulvaneys" by Joyce Carol Oates, published by Dutton. October 1, 1996: Talk of the Nation: "Beyond the Promised Land: Jews and Arabs on the Hard Road to a New Israel" by Glenn Frankel, published by Simon and Schuster. "My Other Life" by Paul Theroux, published by Hamish Hamilton. October 1, 1996: An Alan Cheuse Book Review: "Marx, Deceased" by Carl Djerassi, published by University of Georgia Press. October 1, 1996: Noah Adams talked with the writer: "Angela's Ashes" by Frank McCourt, published by Scribners: A chronicle of the author's childhood in Limerick, Ireland. October 2, 1996: Talk of the Nation: "21st Century Capitalism" (W.W. Norton) and "Teaching from the Wordly Philosophy" (W.W. Norton) by Robert Heilbroner. October 3, 1996: Dean Olsher reported on this year's Nobel Prize winner in literature, Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska. October 3, 1996: An Alan Cheuse Book Review: "Drown" by Junot Diaz, published by Riverhead Books: A collection of short stories about growing up in the Dominican Republic and New Jersey. October 4, 1996: Noah Adams talked to the author: "I Love Me, Vol. 1 -- S. Woodrow's Palindrome Encyclopedia" by Michael Donner, published by Algonquin Books. October 5, 1996: Scott Simon spoke to the author: "Under the Black Flag" by David Cordingly, published by Random House: A history of pirates. October 5, 1996: Daniel Zwerdling talked to the editor: "In Memory's Kitchen" edited by Cara de Silva, published by J.Aronson: A cookbook written by women who died in the Terezin concentration camp. October 6, 1996: Liane Hansen chatted with the author: "Sweet Liberty: Travels in Irish America" by Joseph O'Connor, published by Roberts Rinehart. Books mentioned on Monitor Radio (R): October 3, 1996: "A Book of Luminous Things: an international anthology of poetry" by Czelaw Milosz, published by Harcourt Brace & Co. Books profiled on Fresh Air with host Terry Gross: September 30, 1996: "Sacred Hoops" by Phil Jackson, published by Hyperion. October 1, 1996: "Don't Call It Night" by Amos Oz, published by Harcourt Brace & Co. "Liberating the Gospels: Reading the Bible with Jewish Eyes" by Bishop John Shelby Spong, published by Harper San Francisco. REVIEW by Maureen Corrigan: "The Orchard on Fire" by Shena McKay, published by Moyer Bell. October 2, 1996: "Life on the Line" by Faye Wattleton, published by Ballantine Books: A memoir by the former president of Planned Parenthood. October 4, 1996: "Babel Tower" by A.S. Byatt, published by Random House: She also wrote "The Virgin in the Garden" and "Still Life" (the first two parts of the series), and "Morpho Eugenia". Books reviewed by WUNC Children's Book Commentator Susie Wilde, October 1, 1996: "The War Between the Vowels and the Consonants" by Priscilla Turner, published by FSG. "The Amazing Pop-Up Grammar Book" by Jennie Maizels and Kate Petty, published by Dutton. Books mentioned on The People's Pharmacy, October 5, 1996: "Don't Panic: Taking control of anxiety attacks" by R. Reid Wilson, published by HarperPerennial "Overcoming Agoraphobia" by Alan Goldstein, published by Viking/Penguin. Books mentioned on Soundings, October 6, 1996: "The F.D.R. Years" (Columbia University Press) and "The Supreme Court Reborn" (Oxford University Press) by William Leuchtenburg. 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.