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 3/17 - 3/30/1997 March 17, 1997: Morning Edition -- Susan Stamberg spoke to the photographer: "The Writer's Desk" by Jill Krementz, published by Random House: Photographs of authors posing in the places they like to write. March 17, 1997: Talk of the Nation: "This Great Calamity" (1995, Rinehardt) and "A Death Dealing Famine" (Pluto Press) by Christine Kennelly. "An Original Man: The Life and Times of Elijah Muhammad" by Claude Andrew Clegg III, published by St. Martin's Press. March 18, 1997: Morning Edition -- Bob Edwards discussed the reign of President Mobutu with the author: "The Rise and Decline of the Zairian State" (1985) by Crawford Young and Thomas Turner, published by University of Wisconsin Press. March 18, 1997: Talk of the Nation: "The People's Republic of Albania" (1968) by Nicholas Pano, published by Johns Hopkins University Press. March 18, 1997: All Things Considered -- A reading from the book: "A Bend in the River" by V.S. Naipaul, published by Modern Library. March 19, 1997: All Things Considered -- Deborah Amos spoke to the publisher Robert Young Pelton: "Fielding's the World's Most Dangerous Places" published by Fielding Worldwide. March 20, 1997: Morning Edition -- Brooke Gladstone reported on the Oscar-nominated documentary and book about the publisher: "Witness to a Century", no other information available: The life of George Seldes. March 20, 1997: All Things Considered -- Commentator Frederica Matthewes-Green talked about the translation: "De Good Nyews bout Jedus Christ wa Luke write: the Gospel according to Luke in Gullah, Sea Island Version, with marginal text of the King James version" by the American Bible Society March 21, 1997: Talk of the Nation: "Furtive Fauna: A Field Guide to the Creatures Who Live on You" by Roger Knutson, published by Ten Speed Press. "That Gunk on your Car: A Unique Guide to Insects of the United States" by David Hostetler, published by Brazen Cockroaches, Inc. March 21, 1997: All Things Considered -- Deborah Amos spoke to the author: "Last Night in Paradise: sex and morals at century's end" and "The Morning After: sex, fear, and feminism on campus" by Katie Roiphe, both published by Little, Brown and Co. March 22, 1997: Weekend Edition -- Scott Simon spoke about the passing of literary giant V.S. Pritchett. March 23, 1997: Weekend Edition -- Liane Hansen talked to the author and essayist: "Signs of Life: A Memoir of Dying and Discovery" by Tim Brookes, published by Times Books. March 23, 1997: Weekend Edition -- Liane Hansen spoke to the composer: "GRUNT: Pigorian Chant from Snouto Domoinko de Silo" by Sandra Boynton -- a CD/booklet set (Workman Publishers/Boynton Recordings). March 23, 1997: Weekend All Things Considered -- Daniel Zwerdling spoke to the writer: "A History of Reading" by Alberto Manguel, published by Viking. March 26, 1997: Talk of the Nation: "The Watchmen: The Twisted Life and Crimes of Serial Hacker Kevin Poulsen" by Jonathan Littman, published by Little, Brown, and Co. March 26, 1997: All Things Considered -- Dean Olsher profiled the writer: "The Omni-Americans: some alternatives to the folklore of white supremacy" (1970) by Albert Murray, published by Da Capo Press (1990): Excerpts from his work appears in the new "Norton Anthology of African American Literature". March 27, 1997: Talk of the Nation: "The Bible for Children: From the Age of Gutenberg to the Present" by Ruth Bottigheimer, published by Yale University Press. "Baseball's Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and his Legacy" (Oxford University Press) and "The Jackie Robinson Reader" (Dutton/Signet) by Jules Tygiel. March 28, 1997: Morning Edition and All Things Considered -- Stories about the naming of Robert Pinsky as the next U.S. poet laureate and a reading of his poem "Shirt". March 29, 1997: Weekend All Things Considered -- A look at the poetry of Mark O'Brien, whose life story was featured in the Oscar-winning documentary "Breathing Lessons". March 29, 1997: Weekend All Things Considered -- Daniel Zwerdling spoke to the editor of the book: "Free, Adult, Uncensored: The Living History of the Federal Theater Project" (1978) edited by Lorraine Brown, published by New Republic Books. Books mentioned on Monitor Radio (R): March 21, 1997: "Full Court Press: a season in the life of a winning basketball team and the women who made it happen" by Lauren Kessler, published by Dutton. March 26, 1997: "Desert Fathers, Uranium Daughters" by Debora Greger, published by Penguin Books. Books profiled on Fresh Air with host Terry Gross: March 17, 1997: "Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us" by Kate Bornstein, published by Vintage Books: She also co-wrote "Nearly Roadkill" with Caitlin Sullivan, published by High Risk Books. March 18, 1997: "Making Waves" by Anna Seaton Huntington, published by The Summit Publishing Group. March 19, 1997: "Myth of the Welfare Queen" by David Zucchino, published by Scribner. "Monster: Living off the Big Screen" by John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion, published by Random House. March 20 and/or 25, 1997: "Crash" (1973) by J.G. Ballard, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux: He also wrote "Empire of the Sun" and "Concrete Island". March 21, 1997: "Angela's Ashes" by Frank McCourt, published by Scribner. "Sun Under the Wood" by Robert Hass, published by Ecco: He also wrote "Praise" (1979), "Human Wishes" (1989), and edited "The Essential Haiku: Versions of Baso, Buson, and Issa" (1994). REVIEW by Maureen Corrigan: "The Kiss" by Kathryn Harrison, published by Random House. March 26, 1997: "The Mistress of Spices" by Chitra Divakaruni, published by Anchor Books: She also wrote "Arranged Marriage", a short-story collection. March 28, 1997: "In the Blink of An Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing" by Walter Murch, published by Silman-James Press. Books mentioned on Soundings: March 23, 1997: Interviews with J. Paul Hunter (whose upcoming book is about heroic couplets) and Ulrich Knoepflmacher, an expert on children's literature. March 30, 1997: "Farewell, I'm Bound to Leave You" by Fred Chappell, published by Picador USA. 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