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 Linda Belans Show, The People's Pharmacy and Soundings. NPR(TM) BOOK REVIEWS FROM WUNC RADIO 4/28 - 5/11/1997 April 28, 1997: Talk of the Nation: "Lipstick Proviso" by Karen Lehrman, published by Anchor Books. "Ladyfingers and Nun's Tummies: A Lighthearted Look at How Foods Got Their Names" by Martha Barnette, published by Times Books. "Dictionary of American Food and Drink" (1994) by John Mariani, published by William Morrow. April 28, 1997: All Things Considered -- Linda Wertheimer spoke with the author: "Whatever It Takes: The Real Struggle for Political Power in America" by Elizabeth Drew, published by Viking. April 29, 1997: Morning Edition -- David Molpus reported on the challenges faced by new mothers in the workplace and discussed the books used by companies to educate employees: "Two Years Without Sleep: Working Moms Talk about Having a Baby and a Job" (1993) and "I Work Too: Working Wives Talk about Their Dual-Career Lives" (1996) by Cathy Feldman, published by Blue Point Books. April 29, 1997: Morning Edition -- Bob Edwards spoke to the author: "Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi River Flood in 1927 and How it Changed America" by John Barry, published by Simon and Schuster. May 1, 1997: Talk of the Nation: "In the Shadow of the Poorhouse: A Social History of Welfare in America" (1996, Basic Books) and "Improving Poor People: The Welfare State, 'The Underclass', and Urban Schools as History" (1995, Princeton University Press) by Michael Katz. "Virtual Culture" by Steve Jones, published by Sage Publications. May 2, 1997: Morning Edition -- Alex Chadwick talked with the author: "A Perfect Storm" by Sebastian Junger, published by W.W. Norton: A chronicle of a deadly 1991 storm off the coast of Nova Scotia. May 2, 1997: Talk of the Nation: "Naked to the Bone: Medical Imaging in the Twentieth Century" by Bettyan Holtzmann Kevles, published by Rutgers University Press. May 4, 1997: Weekend All Things Considered -- An appreciation of the author by Phyllis Joffe: "The Street" (1946) by Ann Lane Petry, published by Houghton Mifflin (1991): The first best-seller by a Black woman. May 5, 1997: Morning Edition -- Bob Edwards talked with the baseball player: "The Only Way I Know" by Cal Ripken, published by Viking. May 5, 1997: All Things Considered -- Linda Wertheimer learned to make tortillas from the author: "Rick Bayless's Mexican Kitchen: Capturing the Vibrant Flavors of a World-Class Cuisine" by Rick Bayless, published Scribner. May 6, 1997: Talk of the Nation: "Facts Not Fear: A Parent's Guide to Teaching Children About the Environment" (1996) by Michael Sanera and Jane Shaw, published by Regnery Publishing Inc. "Breaking Up America: Advertisers and the New Media World" by Joseph Turow, published by University of Chicago Press. May 6, 1997: All Things Considered -- Ray Suarez talked to the compiler: "... Or Not to Be, A Collection of Suicide Notes" by Marc Etkind, published by Riverhead Books. May 7, 1997: Talk of the Nation: "Strangers to the Tribe: Portraits of Interfaith Marriage" by Gabrielle Glaser, published by Houghton-Mifflin. May 8, 1997: All Things Considered -- Linda Wertheimer and poet guide Catherine Bowman spoke about the poet: "The Body Mutinies" by Lucia Purillo, published by Purdue University Press. May 9, 1997: Talk of the Nation: "From Lucy to Language: The Record of Human Evolution" by Donald Johanson and Blake Edgar, published by Simon & Schuster. May 9, 1997: All Things Considered -- Ray Suarez spoke with the author: "Myth of the Welfare Queen" by David Zucchino, published by Scribner. May 9, 1997: All Things Considered -- An Alan Cheuse Book Review: "The Aguero Sisters" by Christina Garcia, published by Knopf. May 10, 1997: Weekend Edition -- Susan Stamberg spoke to the authors: "All That We Can Be: Black Leadership and Racial Integration the Army Way" (1996) by Charles Moskos and John Sibley Butler, published by Basic Books. May 10, 1997: Weekend Edition -- Susan Stamberg talked with the author: "Up the Down Staircase" (1964) by Bel Kaufman, published by Prentice-Hall. May 10, 1997: Weekend Edition -- Susan Stamberg spoke with the food critic about her first novel: "The Butter Did It" by Phyllis Richman, published by HarperCollins. May 11, 1997: Weekend Edition -- Ted Libbey spoke to the author: "Empire's End: A History of the Far East from High Colonialism to Hong Kong" by John Keay, published by Scribner. May 11, 1997: Weekend Edition -- Ted Libbey talked to the psychologist: "Altered Loves" by Terri Apter, published by St. Martin's Press: A look at the struggle between mothers and daughters when the latter begin to assert their individuality. Books mentioned on Monitor Radio (R): May 7, 1997: "Endgame: the betrayal and fall of Srebrenica, Europe's worst massacre since World War II" by David Rohde, published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. May 9, 1997: "The Moral Intelligence of Children" by Robert Coles, published by Random House. Books profiled on Fresh Air with host Terry Gross: April 28, 1997: "Dracula: The Connoisseur's Guide" by Leonard Wolf, published by Broadway Books: He also wrote "The Essential Phantom of the Opera", "The Essential Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde", and "The Essential Dracula." "Travelers' Tales Food: True Stories of Life on the Road" edited by Richard Sterling, published by Travelers' Tales: He also wrote "The Eclectic Guide to San Francisco and the Bay Area" and "Dining with Headhunters." April 30, 1997: "Smoke Screen: The Truth Behind the Tobacco Industry Cover-Up" by Philip Hilts, published by Addison-Wesley. May 1, 1997: "Trainspotting" (1993) by Irvine Welsh, published by Norton. "How Late It Was, How Late" (1994) by James Kelman, published by Delta. "Bunker Man" (1995) by Duncan McLean, published by Norton. May 2, 1997: "Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago" (1971)by Mike Royko, published by New American Library. REVIEW by Maureen Corrigan: "Echo House" by Ward Just, published by Houghton Mifflin. May 5, 1997: "Why Marriages Succeed or Fail and How You Can Make Yours Last" (1994, Simon & Schuster), "What Predicts Divorce: The relationship between marital processes and marital outcomes" (1994, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates), and "The Heart of Parenting: How to Raise an Emotionally Intelligent Child" (Simon & Schuster) by John Gottman. "YAHOO! Unplugged" by Jerry Yang, published by IDG Books. May 8, 1997: "Vamps, Virgins, and Victims: How Can Women Fight AIDS?" by Robin Gorna, published by Cassell Publishing. May 9, 1997: "Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster" by Jon Krakauer, published by Villard. Book review listings are available on the internet (http://sunsite.unc.edu/wunc) or via anonymous ftp (sunsite.unc.edu /pub/academic/literature/book-reviews). This text is Copyright (c) 1997 by WUNC Radio (WUNCRADIO@UNC.EDU) and Erika Grams (compiler). All Rights Reserved. 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