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 10/28 - 11/3 1996 October 28, 1996: All Things Considered -- Poet Commentator Cathy Bowman discussed the poet: "Nerve Storm" (1993) by Amy Gerstler, published by Penguin Books. October 29, 1996: Talk of the Nation: "An Easy Burden: The Civil Rights Movement and the Transformation of America" by Andrew Young, published by HarperCollins. "Late Bloomers: Coming of Age in Today's America: The Right Place at the Wrong Time" (1994) by Alex Abrams, published by Times Books. "Will America Grow Up Before It Grows Old: How the Coming Social Security Crisis Threatens You, Your Family and Your Country" by Pete Peterson, published by Random House. October 29, 1996: All Things Considered -- An Alan Cheuse Book Review: "This Wild Darkness" by Harold Brodkey, published by Metropolitan Books: The posthumously published diary of the author's last days dying of AIDS. October 31, 1996: Morning Edition -- Bob Edwrds spoke to the author: "Haunted Places" by Dennis William Hauck, published by Penguin Books. Octoer 31, 1996: Talk of the Nation: "Fixing Broken Windows: Restoring Order and Reducing Crime in Our Communities" by Catherine Coles and George Keller, published by Simon and Schuster. November 1, 1996: Talk of the Nation: "Behind the Crystal Ball: Magic, Science, and the Occult from Antiquity through the New Age" by Anthony Aveni, published by Times Books. "Samba in the Night: Spiritism in Brazil" by David Hess, published by Columbia University Press. November 2, 1996: Weekend Edition -- Daniel Schorr spoke to the author: "The Angry American: How Voter Rage Is Changing the Nation" by Susan Tolchin, published by Westview Press. November 2, 1996: Weekend Edition -- Scott Simon talked to Rachel Brett about the new study: "Children: The Invisible Soldiers" published by Swedish Save the Children (107 88 Stockholm Sweden email: info@rb.se). November 2, 1996: Weekend Edition -- Scott Simon interviewed the espionage author: "The Tailor of Panama" by John le Carre, published by Knopf. November 3, 1996: Weekend Edition -- Liane Hansen talked with the author: "Faith and Treason: The Story of the Gunpowder Plot" by Antonia Fraser, published by Doubleday: She is also the author of "Mary, Queen of Scots" and "The Six Wives of Henry VIII". November 3, 1996: Weekend All Things Considered -- Daniel Zwerdling 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 profiled on Fresh Air with host Terry Gross: October 29, 1996: "Go, Cat, Go!" by Carl Perkins, published by Hyperion: The autobiography of the rockabilly pioneer and songwriter for musicians from Elvis to the Beatles to Johnny Cash. October 30, 1996: "Footsucker" by Geoff Nicholson, published by Overlook Press: A novel about a man with a full life and a foot fetish. October 31, 1996: "Body Count: Moral Poverty ... And How to Win America's War Against Crime and Drugs" by John Silulio, Jr. and , published by Simon & Schuster. "Last One Over the Wall: The Massachusetts Experiment in Closing Reform Schools" (Ohio State University Press, 1991) and "Search and Destroy: African-American Males in the Criminal Justice System" (Cambridge University Press) by Jerome Miller. November 1, 1996: "Jazz" (Knopf, 1992), "Playing in the Dark" (Harvard University Press, 1992), and "Beloved" (Knopf, 1987; pb - NAL/Dutton), by Toni Morrison. "Gray's Anatomy" (1995) by Spalding Gray, published by Vintage Books. Books reviewed by WUNC book commentator Erica Eisdorfer, October 29, 1996: "Downsize This: Random Threats from an Unarmed American" by Michael Moore, published by Crown Publishers. "Thank You for Smoking" (1994) by Christopher Buckley, published by HarperCollins. Books mentioned on Soundings, November 3, 1996: "Before Women Had Wings" by Connie May Fowler, published by Wheeler Publishing. "I Was Amelia Earhart" by Jane Mendelsohn, published by Thorndike Press. This week on PT! Wednesday, October 30 Hour 1--This past week in New York several noted composers paid their respects to 90-year-old Joseph Machlis [MACK-less] a retired Queens College professor. Machlis, who is the author of seven editions of "The Enjoyment of Music" was serenaded with musical tributes by contemporary composers such as Milton Babbitt, Ned Rorem, John Corigliano and Lukas Foss. Susan Scheuer reports from the festive event. Hour 2--Who says opera is for elitists? Well definitely not today's guests. Husband-and-wife team, Linda and Michael Hutcheon talk with Martin about their new book titled "Opera: - Desire, Disease, Death." According to the Hutcheons, opera is not just a way to escape from reality, it actually helps society deal with reality such as disease and death. [University of Nebraska Press] 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.