This list reflects the programming of WUNC Radio: All Things Considered, Morning Edition, Talk of the Nation, Weekend Edition Saturday and Sunday, Fresh Air, Monitor Radio Early Edition, The People's Pharmacy and Soundings. NPR(TM) BOOK REVIEWS FROM WUNC RADIO 12/2 - 12/8 1996 December 2, 1996: Morning Edition -- The commentator told one of the childhood stories from his book: "Barrel Fever" by David Sedaris, published by Little, Brown. December 2, 1996: All Things Considered -- Robert Siegel spoke to the author: "Fragments" by Binjamin Wilkomirski, published by Pantheon Books. December 3, 1996: Talk of the Nation: "Lying: Moral Choices in Public and Private Life" (1979) by Sissela Bok, published by Vintage. "Citizen K: The Deeply Weird American Journey of Brett Kimberlin" by Mark Singer, published by Knopf. December 4, 1996: Talk of the Nation: "Feminism Is Not the Story of My Life" by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, published by Doubleday. December 6, 1996: Alan Cheuse's Holiday book picks (full list with ISBNs available at: http://www.npr.org/programs/atc/booklist.htm: "The Odyssey" by Homer, translated by Robert Fagles, published by Viking "Continental Drift" by James D. Houston, published by the University of California Press. "Quicker than the Eye" by Ray Bradbury, published by Avon Books. "The Norton Anthology of Poetry" (1975) edited by Arthur M. Eastman et al, published by W.W. Norton (revised edition). "The Norton Anthology of African-American Literature" edited by Henry Louis Gates and Nellie Y. McKay, published by W.W. Norton. "The Children's Book of Virtues" edited by William Bennett, published by Simon & Schuster. "Lost Tales: Stories for the Tsar's Children" by Gleb Botkin, published by Villard. December 7, 1996: Weekend Edition -- Scott Simon spoke to the former Israeli president: "Living History -- A Memoir" by Chaim Herzog, published by Pantheon Books. December 7, 1996: Weekend All Things Considered -- Jackie Lyden talked to the author: "The Invisibles, A Tale of the Eunuchs of India" by Zia Jaffrey, published by Pantheon Books. December 8, 1996: Weekend Edition -- Liane Hansen talked to the short story writer: "Some Love, Some Pain, Sometimes" by J. California Cooper, published by Anchor. Books mentioned on Monitor Radio (R): December 2, 1996: "Imaginings of Sand" by Andre Brink, by Harcourt, Brace, and Co.: A novel set in the days before the 1994 South African elections. Books profiled on Fresh Air with host Terry Gross: December 3, 1996: "American Tabloid" (Knopf), "Clandestine" (Avon Books), "The Black Dahlia" (Warner Books), and "My Dark Places" (Knopf) by James Ellroy. December 5, 1996: "Grindhouse: The Forbidden World of 'Adults Only' Cinema" by Eddie Muller and Daniel Faris, published by St. Martin's Press. "Love XX Janis" by Laura Joplin, published by Villard Books. December 6, 1996: "The Complete Lyrics of Ira Gershwin" compiled and edited by Robert Kimball, published by Knopf. Books mentioned on Soundings: December 8, 1996: "1001 Things Everyone Should Know About the South" by John Shelton and Dale Volberg Reed, published by Doubleday. Books reviewed by WUNC Children's Book Commentator, Susie Wilde: December 2, 1996: "Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse" by Kevin Henkes, published by Greenwillow. "The Abracadabra Kid: A Writer's Life" by Sid Fleischman, published by Greenwillow. "Amazon Diary: The Jungle Adventures of Alex Winters" by Hudson Talbott, published by Putnam. "Yoshiko and the Foreigner" by Mimi Otey Little, published by Farrar, Strauss, & Giroux. "Sam's Pizza" by David Pelham, published by Dutton. "My Little Sister Ate One Hare" by Bill Grossman, published by Crown. "White Socks Only" by Evelyn Coleman, published by Whitman. Book review listings are available on the internet via anonymous ftp (sunsite.unc.edu /pub/academic/literature/book-reviews). This text is Copyright (c) 1996 by WUNC Radio (WUNCRADIO@UNC.EDU) and Erika Grams (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.