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 5/10-5/30/1999 May 10, 1999: Morning Edition: Bob Edwards talked with the author "Clear Springs" by Bobbie Ann Mason, published by Random House. May 11, 1999: All Things Considered: An Alan Cheuse review "Temple and Shipman" by Donald Pfarrer, published by MS. In a Bottle. May 11, 1999: All Things Considered: Linda Wertheimer talked with the author "A Soothing Broth: Tonics, Custards, Soups, and Other Cure-Alls for Colds, Coughs, Upset Tummies and Out-of-Sorts Days" by Pat Willard, published by Broadway Books. May 12, 1999: Morning Edition: Bob Edwards talked with the author "The Old Neighborhood: What We Lost in the Great Suburban Migration, 1966-1999" by NPR's Ray Suarez, published by the Free Press. May 12: Talk of the Nation: "Music for Torching" by A. M. Homes, published by William Morrow Co. May 13, 1999: All Things Considered: An Alan Cheuse review "Timbuktu" by Paul Auster, published by Henry Holt & Co. May 13: Talk of the Nation: "England, England" by Julian Barnes, published by Alfred A. Knopf. "Otherwise Engaged" by Suzanne Finnamore, published by Alfred A. Knopf. "In the Drink" by Kate Christensen, published by Doubleday. May 14, 1999: All Things Considered: Noah Adams talked with the author "The Hungry Ocean: A Swordboat Captain's Journey" by Linda Greenlaw, published by Little, Brown. May 14, 1999: Talk of the Nation: "Why We Age: What Science is Discovering About the Body's Journey Through Life" by Steven Austad, published by John Wiley & Sons, 1997. "The Fifth Miracle: The Search for the Origin and Meaning of Life and About Time" by Paul Davies, published by Simon & Schuster. May 14, 1999: This American Life: "Advice" (Episode 129) " Savage Love : Straight Answers from America's Most Popular Sex Columnist" by Dan Savage, published by Plume, 1998. May 15, 1999: All Things Considered: A play based on the novel was discussed "Dead Souls" by Nikolai Gogol. The latest edition is published by Vintage Classics, 1997. May 16, 1999: All Things Considered: Daniel Zwerdling talked with the author "The Lexus and the Olive Tree" by Thomas Friedman, published by Farrar Straus & Giroux. May 17, 1999: All Things Considered: "I Ain't Got Time to Bleed: Reworking the Body Politic from the Bottom Up" by Jesse Ventura, published by Villard Books. May 17, 1999: All Things Considered: Robert Siegel talked with the author "Twilight of the Wagners" by Gottfried Wagner, published by St. Martin's Press. May 18, 1999: All Things Considered: An Alan Cheuse review "Hummingbird House" by Patricia Henley, published by Macmurray and Beck Communications. May 20, 1999: Talk of the Nation: "Down and Out in Paris and London" by George Orwell; most recent edition published by Harcourt Brace & Co., 1972 (still in print). "The Meme Machine" by Susan Blackmore, published by Oxford University Press. "The Moral Animal: Evolutionary Psychology and Everyday Life" by Robert Wright, published by Vintage, 1995. "The Selfish Gene" by Richard Dawkins, published by Oxford University Press, 1976. Dawkins also wrote "Unweaving the Rainbow" published by Houghton-Mifflin in 1998. May 21, 1999: All Things Considered: Linda Wertheimer spoke with one of the authors "Girls on Film: The Highly Opinionated, Completely Subjective Guide to the Movies" by Sybil Goldman, et al., published by HarperCollins. May 21: Talk of the Nation: "Dancing Naked in the Mind Field" by Kary Mullis, published by Pantheon Books, 1998. May 21: This American Life: "Away From Home" (Episode 130) "Native Stranger: A Black American's Journey into the Heart of Africa" by Eddy L. Harris, currently out of print. "Turbulent Souls: A Catholic Son's Return to His Jewish Family: by Stephen J. Dubner, published by William Morrow, 1998. May 22, 1999: All Things Considered: Daniel Zwerdling spoke with the author "Timbuktu" by Paul Auster, published by Henry Holt & Co. Also reviewed on ATC by Alan Cheuse, May 13, 1999. May 22, 1999: Weekend Edition: Scott Simon talked with the author "Salt and Pepper: 135 Perfectly Seasoned Recipes" by Michelle Anna Jordan, published by Broadway Books. May 22, 1999: Weekend Edition: Scott Simon spoke with the author "Rat Pack Confidential" by Sean Levy, recently released in paperback by Doubleday. May 24, 1999: All Things Considered: Robert Siegel spoke with the author "Waging Peace: Israel and the Arabs at the End of the Century" by Itamar Rabinovich, published by Farrar Straus & Giroux. May 24, 1999: Morning Edition: Bob Edwards talked with the author "Madeleine Albright: A Twentieth-Century Odyssey" by Michael Dobbs, published by Henry Holt & Co. May 26, 1999: All Things Considered: Linda Wertheimer talked to Poet Guide Catherine Bowman about the book "The Phoenix Gone, the Terrace Empty" by Marilyn Chin, published by Milkweed Editions, 1994. May 26, 1999: Morning Edition: Bob Edwards talked with the author "England, England" by Julian Barnes, published by Alfred A. Knopf. Barnes' other books include "Metroland" (Vintage, 1992) and "Flaubert's Parrot" (Vintage, 1990). May 26, 1999: Talk of the Nation: "Free to Hate: The Rise of the Right in Post-Communist Eastern Europe" by Paul Hockenos, published by Routledge, 1993. May 28, 1999: Morning Edition: Bob Edwards talked with the author "Inside the Oval Office: The White House Tapes from FDR to Clinton" by William Doyle, published by Kodansha International. May 29, 1999: All Things Considered: Daniel Zwerdling talked with the author "How to Cook Everything-Simple Recipes for Great Food" by Mark Bittman, published by Macmillan General Reference, 1998. May 30, 1999: Weekend Edition: Liane Hansen spoke with the author "Down East Maine: A World Apart" by Frank Van Riper, published by Down East Books, 1998. May 30, 1999: Weekend Edition: Liane Hansen spoke with the authors "The U.S.S. Essex and the Birth of the American Navy" by Frances D. Robotti and James Vescovi, published by Adams Media Corporation. Books profiled on Fresh Air with host Terry Gross: May 11, 1999: "For the Relief of Unbearable Urges" by Nathan Englander, published by Alfred A. Knopf. May 12, 1999: "Making Peace" by George Mitchell, published by Alfred A. Knopf. May 13, 1999: "The Clone Age: Adventures in the New World of Reproductive Technology" by Lori B. Andrews, published by Henry Holt & Co. May 14, 1999: "The Best American Short Stories of the Century" edited by John Updike with series editor Katrina Kenison, published by Houghton Mifflin. "About a Boy" by Nick Hornby, in paperback from William Morrow. Hornby also wrote "High Fidelity", also in paperback from Riverhead Books. May 17, 1999: "Feel this Book: An Essential Guide to Self-Empowerment, Spiritual Supremacy and Sexual Satisfaction" by Janeane Garofalo and Ben Stiller, published by Ballantine Books. May 18, 1999: "Wake Up, I'm Fat!" by Camryn Manheim, published by Broadway Books. May 20, 1999: "God and the Gun", "The Shankill Butchers" and "The Dirty War" all by Martin Dillon, reissued this year from Routledge. "The Meaning of Jesus: Two Visions" by Marcus J. Borg and N.T. Wright, published by Harper San Francisco, 1998. Borg also wrote "Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time" (Harper San Francisco 1994); Wright is the author of "Jesus and the Victory of God" (Augsburg Fortress Publications/ELCA, 1996). "Another World" by Pat Barker, published by Farrar Straus & Giroux. May 21, 1999: "The Love Letter" by Cathleen Schine, published by NAL/Dutton, 1998. Schine's other books include "Alice in Bed" (Plume 1996), "To the Bird House" (Plume 1996) and "Rameau's Niece" (Plume 1994). May 24, 1999: "Irving Berlin: A Life in Song" by Philip Furia, published by Oxford University Press, 1997. Furia is also the author of "The Poets of Tin Pan Alley" (Oxford UP 1992). May 26, 1999: "An Even Better Place: America in the 21st Century" by Richard Gephart, published by Public Affairs LLC. May 28, 1999: Reviewer Maureen Corrigan's summer reading list: "The Drowning People" by Richard Mason, published by Warner Books "A New Song" by Jan Karon, published by Viking Penguin "Other People's Children" by Joanna Trollope, published by Viking Penguin "Last Rites" by John Harvey, published by Henry Holt & Co. "Fail-Safe" by Eugene Burdick, reprint ed. from Ecco Press. Book review listings are available on the internet (http://metalab.unc.edu/wunc) or via anonymous ftp (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.