This list reflects the programming of WUNC Radio: All Things Considered, Morning Edition, Talk of the Nation, Weekend Edition Saturday and Sunday, Fresh Air, Fresh Air Weekend, This American Life, The Linda Belans Show, and The People's Pharmacy. NPR(TM) BOOK REVIEWS FROM WUNC RADIO 6/1 - 6/7/1998 June 1, 1998: All Things Considered: Robert Siegel talked with the translators of a new edition of Aesop's fables which offers "unsanitized" versions of all 358 of the fables. "Aesop: The Complete Fables" by Olivia Temple and Robert Temple, published by Penguin. June 1, 1998: All Things Considered: Linda Wertheimer talked with the author of the new novel: "Goodnight, Nebraska" by Tom McNeal, published by Random House. June 1, 1998: Talk of the Nation: "Silent Travelers: Germs, Genes, and 'The Immigrant Menace'" (Johns Hopkins Press 1995) by Allen Kraut. "To Be An American: Cultural Pluralism and the Rhetoric of Assimilation" by Bill Hing, published by NYU Press. "Bridget Jones's Diary; A Novel" by Helen Fielding, published by Viking. This novel, which began as a series of newspaper columns, has been the best-selling novel in Great Britain for six months and has just won the British Book Award. June 2, 1998: Talk of the Nation: "Mayhem: Violence as Public Entertainment" by Sissela Bok, published by Addison-Wesley. June 3, 1998: Talk of the Nation: "Crisis Prevention, Confidence Building and Reconciliation in South Asia" (St. Martin's 1996) by Michael Krepon. June 3, 1998: An Alan Cheuse Review: "River Angel" by A. Manette Ansay, published by William Morrow. Cheuse found the novel to be an evocative portrait of a rural town where the veneer of normalcy hides deeper, stranger truths. June 3, 1998: Talk of the Nation: "The Conquest of Cool" by Tom Frank, published by the University of Chicago Press. Frank is the editor of the magazine "The Baffler." "Radio On" by Sara Vowell, published by St. Martins. Vowell is a columnist for the on-line magazine, "Salon." June 5, 1998: All Things Considered: Alan Cheuse provided his list of choices for summer reading. "The Antelope Wife" (Harper Collins 1998) by Louise Erdrich. "Jack Maggs" (Knopf 1998) by Peter Carey. "Children of God"(Villard 1998) by Mary Doria Russell. "Lucky Bastard" (Random House 1998) by Charles McCarry. "The Naked and the Dead" (Holt 1998) by Norman Mailer. 50th anniversary edition. "Women with Men: Three Stories" (Vintage 1997) by Richard Ford. "My Sister Life : The Story of My Sister's Disappearance" (Pantheon 1997) by Maria Flook. "My Antonia" (Houghton Mifflin 1918) by Willa Cather. June 5, 1998: All Things Considered: An obituary for the author and critic Alfred Kazin. "On Native Grounds: An Interpretation of Modern American Prose Literature" (Reynal & Hitchcock 1942) by Alfred Kazin. "A Walker in the City" (Harcourt Brace 1951) by Alfred Kazin. June 7, 1998: Weekend All Things Considered: Daniel Zwerdling talked with the author: "The Overspent American: Upscaling, Downshifting, and the New Consumer" by Juliet B. Schor, published by Basic Books. Books profiled on Fresh Air with host Terry Gross: June 1, 1998: "A Crowded Heart" by Nicholas Papandreou, published by Picador. Papandreou is the son of the former Greek Prime Minister, Andreas Papandreou. "Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton" by Diane Wood Middlebrooke, published by Houghton Mifflin. The book traces the life of a jazz musician who passed as a man for most of her life. Middlebrooke is also the author of "Anne Sexton: A Biography" (Houghton Mifflin 1991). June 3, 1998: REVIEW: Maureen Corrigan: "Bridget Jones's Diary: A Novel" by Helen Fielding, published by Viking. This novel, which began as a series of newspaper columns, has been the best-selling novel in Great Britain for six months, and has just won the British Book Award. June 4, 1998: "Robert Kennedy: A Memoir" (Dutton 1969) by Jack Newfield. The memoir was the basis for a 3-hour documentary which aired on The Discovery Channel. "Make Gentle the Life of this World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy" edited by Maxwell Taylor Kennedy, published by Harcourt Brace. Max Kennedy, the youngest son of Robert F. Kennedy, edited this new collection of his father's private journals. June 5, 1998: "Twitch and Shout: A Touretter's Tale" by Lowell Handler, published by Dutton. Fresh Air Weekend: June 6-7, 1998: "Make Gentle the Life of this World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy" edited by Maxwell Taylor Kennedy, published by Harcourt Brace. Max Kennedy, the youngest son of Robert F. Kennedy, edited a new collection of his father's private journals.. 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). 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