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 Linda Belans Show, The People's Pharmacy and Soundings. NPR(TM) BOOK REVIEWS FROM WUNC RADIO 3/3 - 3/9/1997 March 3, 1997: Morning Edition -- Susan Stamberg reported on the authors: "Monster: living off the big screen" by John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion, published by Random House: The story of what it took to get the screenplay "Up Close and Personal" made into a movie. March 4, 1997: Talk of the Nation: "The Autobiography of My Mother" (1995), "Annie John" (1985), and "At the Bottom of the River" (1983) by Jamaica Kincaid, all published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. "Breathe, Eyes, Memory" (1994) and "Krik?Krak" Stories" (1995) by Edwidge Danticat, published by Soho Press. "Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West" (1996), "Band of Brothers" (1992), and "Eisenhower: Soldier and President" (1985) by Stephen Ambrose, all published by Simon & Schuster. March 5, 1997: Talk of the Nation: "Out of America: A Black Man Confronts Africa" by Keith Richburg, published by Basic Books. "Still Life in Harlem" (1996, Henry Holt), "Native Stranger" (1993, Random House), and "Mississippi Solo" (1988, Lyons & Buford) by Eddy L. Harris. March 5, 1997: All Things Considered -- Linda Wertheimer spoke Catherine Bowman about the poet: "The Crimson Edge, Older Women Writing" and "Piece of Time" by Carrie Allen McCray, published by Chickory Blue Press. March 6, 1997: Talk of the Nation: "Surfergrrrls: Look Ethel! An Internet Guide for Us!" by Crystal Kile and Laurel Gilbert, published by SEAL Press. March 7, 1997: Morning Edition -- David D'Arcy looked at the book: "Naked Came the Manatee" by various authors including Carl Hiaasen, Elmore Leonard, and Dave Barry, published by Putnam: Originally published as a serial in the Miami Herald. March 7, 1997: Talk of the Nation: "The Island of the Colorblind" by Oliver Sacks, published by Knopf. March 7, 1997: All Things Considered -- An Alan Cheuse Book Review: "Payback" by Thomas Kelly, published by Knopf. March 7, 1997: Weekend Edition -- Scott Simon talked to the author: "Smelly Old History" by Mary Dobson, published by Oxford University Press: A series of books featuring "scratch 'n sniff" scents from the past. March 8, 1997: Weekend All Things Considered -- Daniel Zwerdling spoke to the professor: "Common Sense and a Little Fire: women and working class politics in the United States, 1900-1965" (1995) by Annelise Orleck, published by University of North Carolina Press. March 9, 1997: Weekend Edition -- Walter Ray Watson traveled on the train organized by the book's author: "Those Pullman Blues" by David Perata, published by Twayne Publishers: An oral history of the Pullman porters. March 9, 1997: Weekend All Things Considered -- Daniel Zwerdling talked to the author: "Out of America: A Black Man Confronts Africa" by Keith Richburg, published by Basic Books. Books mentioned on Monitor Radio (R): March 6, 1997: Colin Dexter, the creator of Inspector Morse, spoke to David Brown. Books profiled on Fresh Air with host Terry Gross: March 3, 1997: "Payback" by Thomas Kelly, published by Knopf: A novel about two Irish-American brothers working in the construction industry in 1980s New York. "Out of America" by Keith B. Richburg, published by Basic Books: A reflection on his three years of experience as a journalist in Africa and how the African-American identity connects to its African roots. March 4, 1997: "Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America" (1992) and "John Wayne's America: The Politics of Celebrity" by Garry Wills, published by Simon and Schuster. "Smoke and Mirrors: Violence, Television and other American Cultures" by John Leonard, published by The New Press. REVIEW by Maureen Corrigan: "Hapworth 16, 1924" by J.D. Salinger, published by Orchises. March 5, 1997: "A Supposedly Funny Thing I'll Never Do Again" and "Infinite Jest" by David Foster Wallace, published by Little, Brown & Co. March 6, 1997: "The English Patient" and "Running in the Family" by Michael Ondaatje, published by Vintage. "Coyote Medicine" by Lewis Mehl-Madrona, published by Scribner: A look at ways to combine alternative and traditional medicine. March 7, 1997: "The Land Where the Blues Began" (1993) by Alan Lomax, published by Pantheon. Books reviewed by WUNC Children's Book Commentator Susie Wilde, March 3, 1997: "Painting the Wind: A Story of Vincent van Gogh" by Michelle Dionetti, published by Little, Brown. "Becoming Rosemary" by Frances Wood, published by Delcorte. COMING UP ON NPR's PERFORMANCE TODAY - MARCH 3 -MARCH 10, 1997 Thursday, MARCH 6 Hour 1-- British author Elizabeth Norman McKay speaks with Martin about her new biography chronicling the personal world of composer Franz Schubert, which has just been released to coincide with the bicentenary of his birth. Book review listings are available on the internet (http://sunsite.unc.edu/wunc) or via anonymous ftp (sunsite.unc.edu /pub/academic/literature/book-reviews). This text is Copyright (c) 1997 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.