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 8/23 - 9/5/99 August 23, 1999: Morning Edition: "What it Takes to Get to Vegas" by Yxta Maya Murray, published by Grove Press. August 23, 1999: Talk of the Nation: "The More You Watch, The Less You Know" by Danny Schechter, published by Seven Stories Press (1997). August 24, 1999: Talk of the Nation: "Slaughter House: Bosnia and the Failure of the West" by David Rieff, published by Touchstone Books (1996). Rieff is also the co-editor of "Crimes of War: What the Public Should Know" (W. W. Norton, 1999). "Pork Operation For the 21st Century" by Christopher Hurt, published by Purdue University Press (1995). August 24, 1999: All Things Considered: Elizabeth Perez Luna has an appreciation of the author's work "Ficciones" by Jorge Luis Borges, published by Grove Press (1989). August 25, 1999: Talk of the Nation: "You Can Retire While You're Still Young Enough to Enjoy It: Straight Forward Strategies to Get You There" by Les Abromovitz, published by Dearborn Books. August 25, 1999: All Things Considered: Noah Adams spoke with the author "Flowers in the Dustbin: The Rise of Rock and Roll, 1947-1977" by James Miller, published by Simon & Schuster. August 26, 1999: Talk of the Nation: "Drugs and The Athlete" by Gary Wadler, published by Oxford University Press, 1990. August 28, 1999: All Things Considered: Daniel Zwerdling spoke to the author "My Father, Dancing" by Bliss Broyard, published by Alfred A. Knopf. August 29, 1999: Weekend Edition: The author shared some of his letters "Dear Kalman: Smart, Peculiar and Outrageous Advice for Life from Famous People to a Kid" by Kalman Gabriel, published by Quill. August 30, 1999: All Things Considered: An Alan Cheuse review "First Snow on Fuji" by Yasunari Kawabata, published by Counterpoint. August 30, 1999: All Things Considered: Robert Siegel talked to the author "Cheese Primer" by Steve Jenkins, published by Workman Publishing Co. (1996). August 31, 1999: Talk of the Nation: "A Nation in Waiting: Indonesia's Search for Stability" by Adam Schwartz, published by Westview (1994; publisher currently out of stock). "School Finance: A Policy Perspective" by Larry Picus, forthcoming from McGraw Hill. Picus is also the editor of "Where Does the Money Go? Resource Allocation in Elementary and Secondary Schools" (also forthcoming from McGraw Hill). September 1, 1999: Talk of the Nation: "How Has Saddam Hussein Survived?" by Patrick Clawson, published by National Defense University Press (1998). Clawson is also the editor of "Iraqi Strategy Review" (Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 1998). "Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City" by Elijah Anderson, published by W.W. Norton. "Cold New World: Growing Up in a Harder Country" by William Finnegan, published by Modern Library (1998). September 1, 1999: All Things Considered: An Alan Cheuse review "Hitler's Niece" by Ron Hansen, published by HarperCollins. September 2, 1999: Talk of the Nation: "The 100 Best Small Art Towns in America" by John Villani, published by John Muir Publications (1998). September 2, 1999: All Things Considered: Noah Adams spoke to the editor "Too Good To Be True: The Colossal Book of Urban Legends" edited by Jan Harold Brunvand, published by Garland (1998). September 4, 1999: Weekend Edition: Scott Simon talked with Daniel Pinkwater about the new children's book "Toestomper and the Caterpillars" by Sharleen Collicott, published by Houghton Mifflin. September 5, 1999: Weekend Edition: Don Gonyea spoke with the author "Working at Play: A History of Vacations in the United States" by Cindy Sondik Aron, published by Oxford University Press. September 5, 1999: All Things Considered: Daniel Zwerdling spoke to the editor "The Oxford Book of Work" edited by Keith Thomas, published by Oxford University Press. Books profiled on Fresh Air with Terry Gross August 23, 1999: Geoff Nunberg reviewed the new edition "The Elements of Style" (4th ed.) published by Allyn & Bacon. August 25, 1999: "Life in the Treetops: Advenures of a Woman in Field Biology" by Margaret Lowman, published by Yale University Press. August 27, 1999: "Sweet Forever" by George Pelecanos, published by Dell. Pelecanos' other works include "King Suckerman" (Bantam, 1998); "The Big Blowdown" (Minotaur, 1999); "Down By the River Where Dead Men Go" (Serpent's Tail, 1996); "Shoedog" (currently out of print); "Nick's Trip" (Serpent's Tail, 1998) and "A Firing Offense" (Serpent's Tail, 1997; publisher currently out of stock). August 30, 1999: "Blues All Around Me" by B. B. King, published by Avon Books (1996). "Searching For Robert Johnson" by Peter Guralnik, published by Penguin USA, 1998. September 2, 1999: "Miss Rhythm" by Etta James, published by Da Capo 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.