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 9/20 - 10/3, 1999 September 20, 1999: Talk of the Nation: "The Federal Impeachment Process" by Michael Gerhardt, published by Princeton University Press, 1996. "Ask the Children: What America's Children Really Think about Working Parents" by Ellen Galinsky, published by William Morrow & Co. September 20, 1999: All Things Considered: An Alan Cheuse review "Waiting" by Ha Jin, published by Pantheon Books. September 21, 1999: Morning Edition: Bob Edwards talked with the author "For Common Things: Irony, Trust and Commitment in America Today" by Jedediah Purdy, published by Knopf. September 21, 1999: Talk of the Nation: "Race to Incarcerate" by Marc Mauer, published by The New Press. September 22, 1999: Morning Edition: Bob Edwards talked with the author "Ahab's Wife or The Stargazer: A Novel" by Sena Jeter Naslund, published by William Morrow & Co. September 22, 1999: Talk of the Nation: "Stiffed: the Betrayal of the American Man" by Susan Faluid, published by William Morrow & Co. "What Salmon Know" by Elwood Reid, published by Doubleday. September 23, 1999: Talk of the Nation: A discussion of Djuna Barnes for Book Club "Djuna: The Life and Work of Djuna Barnes" by Phillip Herring, published by Penguin USA, 1996. "Nightwood" by Djuna Barnes, published by W. W. Norton, 1988. September 23, 1999: All Things Considered: Linda Wertheimer talked to the author "Chez Panisse Cafe Cookbook" by Alice Waters, published by Harper Collins. September 24, 1999: Morning Edition: Madeleine Brand talked with the editors "The Bust Guide to the New Girl Order" edited by Debbie Stoller and Marcelle Karp, published by Penguin USA. See Bust Magazine's website at http://www.bust.com September 24, 1999: Talk of the Nation: "Precious Heritage: The Status of Biodiversity in the United States" edited by Bruce Stein, published by Oxford University Press (forthcoming in January 2000). "The Undiscovered Mind: How The Human Brain Defies Replication, Medication, and Explanation" by John Horgan, published by Simon and Schuster. Horgan is also the author of "The End of Science" (Helix Books, 1997). September 25, 1999: Weekend Edition: Scott Simon spoke to the author "The Code Book: The Evolution of Secrecy from Mary, Queen of Scots, to Quantum Cryptography" by Simon Singh, published by Doubleday. September 25, 1999: All Things Considered: Daniel Zwerdling talked with the author "Our Dumb Century: 100 Years of Headlines from America's Finest News Source" by Scott Dikkers, published by Three Rivers Press. Available on cassette from Harper Audio. The Onion can be found online at http://www.theonion.com September 26, 1999: Weekend Edition: Liane Hansen spoke to the editor "Places I Never Meant To Be: Original Stories by Censored Authors" edited by Judy Blume, published by Simon & Shuster. September 26, 1999: All Things Considered: Daniel Zwerdling spoke to the author "Blind Eye: How the Medical Establishment Let a Doctor Get Away with Murder" by James Stewart, published by Simon & Schuster. September 27, 1999: All Things Considered: Robert Siegel spoke with the author "Denmark Vesey: The Buried History of America's Largest Slave Rebellion and the Man Who Led It" by David Robertson, published by Knopf. September 27, 1999: All Things Considered: An Alan Cheuse review "Hearts in Atlantis" by Stephen King, published by Scribner. September 28, 1999: Morning Edition: Commentator Matt Miller "The Stakeholder Society" by Bruce Ackerman and Anne Alstott, published by Yale University Press. September 28, 1999: Morning Edition: Bob Edwards talked to the publisher "The Old Farmer's Almanac" published by Villard Books. September 28, 1999: Talk of the Nation: "Whittaker Chambers: A Biography" by Sam Tanenhaus, published by Random House, 1997. "Robert Graves: Life on the Edge" by Miranda Seymour, published by Henry Holt & Co., 1995. Seymour is also the author of "The Summer of '39" (W. W. Norton, 1999). "The Holocaust in American Life" by Peter Novick, published by Houghton Mifflin. Novick is also the author of "That Noble Dream: The Objectivity Question and the American Historical Profession" (Cambridge University Press, 1988). "Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan" by Edmund Morris, published by Random House. September 29, 1999: Talk of the Nation: "Family Bonds: Adoption, Infertility, and the New World of Child Production" by Elizabeth Bartholet, published by Beacon. "Love Undetectable: Notes on Friendship, Sex, and Survival" by Andrew Sullivan, published by Knopf, 1998. September 29, 1999: All Things Considered: Robert Siegel spoke with an author The Sword and The Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB" by Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin, published by Basic Books. September 30, 1999: Morning Edition: The 1999 Nobel Prize winner was featured "The Tin Drum"by Gunter Grass, published by Vintage, 1990 (reissue edition). September 30, 1999: Talk of the Nation: "Maps of Heaven, Maps of Hell: Religious Terror as Memory From Puritans through Stephen King" by Ed Ingebretsen, published by M. E. Sharpe, 1996. Ingebretsen is also the author of "Making Monsters: Politics of Fear and Scandal (M. E. Sharpe, 1996). "The Road to Redemption" by Burton Vistotzky, published by Crown, 1998. "Chechnya: Calamity in the Caucasus" by Tom De Waal, published by New York University Press, 1998. September 30, 1999: All Things Considered: Rick Karr reports on the work of the author "The Tin Drum" Guenter Grass, published by Vintage, 1990 (reissue edition). October 1, 1999: Morning Edition: Bob Edwards talked to the author "'Tis: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt, published by Scribner. McCourt is also the author of "Angela's Ashes" (Touchstone Books). October 1, 1999: All Things Considered: Dinesh D'Souza commented on the new book "Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan" by Edmund Morris, published by Random House. "Ronald Reagan: How an Ordinary Man Became an Extraordinary Leader" by Dinesh D'Souza published by Free Press, 1997. October 2, 1999: Weekend Edition: Scott Simon talked with the author "Personal Injuries" by Scott Turow, published by Farrar Straus & Giroux. October 2, 1999: All Things Considered: Daniel Zwerdling talked with the author "Memories of the Great and The Good" by Alistair Cooke, published by Arcade Publishing. October 3, 1999: Weekend Edition: Liane Hansen spoke with the author "The Shocking Miss Pilgrim: Writer in Early Hollywood" by Frederica Sagor Maas, published by the University Press of Kentucky. October 3, 1999: All Things Considered: Daniel Zwerdling spoke to the author "A Clearing in the Distance" by Witold Rybczynski, published by Scribner. Books Profiled on Fresh Air with Terry Gross September 20, 1999: "Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey" by Jane Goodall, published by Warner Books. September 22, 1999: "Morning, Noon, and Night" by Spalding Gray, published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Gray is also the author of "Monster in a Box" (Vintage, 1992), "Impossible Vacation" (Knopf, 1992), "Swimming to Cambodia" (Theatre Communications Group, 1988), and "Gray's Anatomy" (Vintage, 1994). September 23, 1999: "A Great Wall: Six Presidents and China: In Investigative History" by Patrick Tyler, published by Public Affairs Books. September 24, 1999: "Wake Up, I'm Fat!" by Camryn Manheim, published by Broadway Books. September 27, 1999: "She Got Game: My Personal Odyssey" by Cynthia Cooper, published by Warner Books. September 28, 1999: "The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy" by Nicholas Lemann, published by Farrar, Strauss & Giroux. September 29, 1999: "The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB" by Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin, published by Basic Books. October 1, 1999: "Always a Reckoning And Other Poems" by Jimmy Carter, published by Random House, 1995. Carter is also the author of "Turning Point: A Candidate, A State, and a Nation Come of Age" (Time Books, 1993), and "Living Faith" (Times Books, 1996). 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). 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