This list reflects the programming of WUNC Radio: All Things Considered, Morning Edition, Talk of the Nation, Weekend Edition Saturday and Sunday, Fresh Air, This American Life. A date of publication is only given if the book was not published in 1999. NPR(TM) BOOK REVIEWS FROM WUNC RADIO 10/18 - 10/31/1999 October 18, 1999: Talk of the Nation: "The Rise & Fall of the American Teenager" by Thomas Hine, published by Avon Books. "Ready or Not: How Treating Children as Small Adults Endangers Their Future and Ours" by Kay S. Hymowitz, published by Free Press. October 18, 1999: All Things Considered: Noah Adams talked to the author "The Book on the Bookshelf" by Henry Petroski, published by Knopf. October 19, 1999: Talk of the Nation: "The Feisty Woman's Breast Cancer Book" by Elaine Ratner, published by Hunter House. "Living on the Margins: Women Writers on Breast Cancer" edited by Hilda Raz, published by Persea Books. "All Souls: A Family Story from Southie" by Michael MacDonald, published by Beacon Press. "Liberty's Chosen Home" by Alan Lupo, published by Beacon Press, 1988. October 19, 1999: All Things Considered: Noah Adams spoke to the author "The Victorian Internet" by Tom Standage, published by Berkley Books. October 20, 1999: Talk of the Nation: "Wonders of the African World" by Henry Louis Gates Jr., published by Knopf. Gates is also the co-editor with Kwame Anthony Appiah of "Africana: The Encyclopedia of Africa and The African-American Experience" (Persius, 1999). October 20, 1999: All Things Considered: An Alan Cheuse review "The Story of a Million Years" by David Huddle, published by Houghton Mifflin. October 21, 1999: Talk of the Nation: "Margaret Atwood: A Biography" by Nathalie Cooke, published by ECW Press, 1998. "Miss Manners' Guide to Domestic Tranquility: The Authoritative Manual for Every Civilized Household, However Harried" by Judith Martin, published by Crown. October 22, 1999: Morning Edition: Bob Edwards talked to the author "Ground Rules for Winners" by Joe Torre, published by Hyperion. October 22, 1999: Talk of the Nation: "Undue Risk: Secret State Experiments on Humans" by Jonathan Moreno, published by W.H. Freeman & Co. "The Plutonium Files: America's Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War" by Eileen Welsome, published by Dial Press. October 23, 1999: Weekend Edition: Scott Simon talked to the author "Dr. Seuss Goes to War: The World War Two Editorial Cartoons of Theodor Seuss Geisel" by Richard Minear, published by New Press. October 23, 1999: All Things Considered: Daniel Zwerdling spoke to the author "Across The Universe with John Lennon" by Linda Keen, published by Hampton Roads Publishing. October 25, 1999: Morning Edition: Bob Edwards talked to the editor "Young Babe Ruth, His Early Life and Baseball Career, from the Memoirs of a Xaverian Brother" by Brother Gilbert, C.F.X.; edited by Harry Rothgerber; published by McFarland & Co. (1-800-253-2187). October 25, 1999: All Things Considered: Linda Wertheimer spoke to the co-editor "A Republic of Parties?: Debating the Two-Party System (Enduring Questions in American Political Life)" by Theodore Lowi, published by Rowman & Littlefield. October 26, 1999: Morning Edition: Razia Iqbal reported on the winner of the Booker Prize "Disgrace" by J. M. Coetzee, published by Viking Press (Nov. 15, 1999). October 26, 1999: All Things Considered: Linda Wertheimer spoke to the authors "Nightmare Hour, Time for Terror" by R.L. Stine (Harper Collins Juvenile), "The Battlefield Ghost" by Margery Cuyler (Scholastic Trade) and "Ghost Cats" by Susan Shreve (Arthur A. Levine). October 27, 1999: Talk of the Nation: "In Our Own Words: Extraordinary Speeches of the American Century" co-edited by Robert Torricelli and Andrew Carroll, published by Kodansha. "Strictly Speaking: Reid Buckley's Indispensible Handbook on Public Speaking" by Reid Buckley, published by McGraw-Hill. "The Basque History of the World" by Mark Kurlansky, published by Walker & Co. Kurlansky is also the author of "Cod: A Biography of Fish That Changed the World" (Penguin, 1998). October 27, 1999: All Things Considered: Linda Wertheimer spoke to the author "Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House" by Cheryl Mendelsohn, published by Scribner. October 28, 1999: Talk of the Nation: "Messiah" by Andrei Codrescu, published by Simon & Schuster. "River Horse: A Voyage Across America" by William Least Heat-Moon, published by Houghton Mifflin. Heat-Moon is also the author of "Blue Highways" (Mariner Books). October 28, 1999: All Things Considered: An Alan Cheuse review "Plainsong" by Kent Karuf, published by Knopf. October 28, 1999: All Things Considered: Robert Siegel spoke to the author "The Great Game: The Emergence of Wall Street as a World Power" by Robert Steele Gordon, published by Scribner. October 29, 1999: Talk of the Nation: "The Clone Age: Adventures in the New World of Reproductive Technology" by Lori Andrews, published by Henry Holt & Co. October 30, 1999: Weekend Edition: The author's new memoirs were discussed "My First 79 Years" by Isaac Stern, published by Knopf. October 31, 1999: Weekend Edition: Liane Hansen spoke to the author "The Man who Could Fly" by Bob Beamon with Milana Walter Beamon, published by Genesis Press Ltd. October 31, 1999: All Things Considered: Daniel Zwerdling spoke with the authors "Julia and Jacques, Cooking at Home" by Julia Child and Jacques Pepin, published by Knopf. Books profiled on Fresh Air with Terry Gross October 19, 1999: "Holy Soul Jelly Roll: Songs and Poems, 1949-1993" by Allen Ginsberg (currently out of print; from Rhino Records, ISBN 1568264240). "Chuck Close" by Robert Storr, Kirk Varnedoe, and Deborah Wye, published by Harry N. Abrams, 1998. October 20, 1999: "A Certain Justice" by P. D. James, published by Ballantine Books. James' other novels include "A Taste for Death" (Ballantine) and "Shroud for a Nightingale" (Warner Books, 1992). October 21, 1999: "A Twist of Lennon" by Cynthia Lennon, currently out of print. October 27, 1999: "Barry White: Love Unlimited" by Barry White with Marc Eliot, published by Broadway Books. "Headlong" by Michael Frayn, published by Henry Holt. October 28, 1999: "Vincent Price: A Daughter's Biography" by Victoria Price, published by St. Martins Press. Book review listings are available on the internet (http://metalab.unc.edu/wunc) or via anonymous ftp (metalab.unc.edu /pub/academic/literature/book-reviews). This text is Copyright (c) 1999 by WUNC Radio (WUNCRADIO@UNC.EDU) and Heidi Dressler (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.