This list reflects the programming of WUNC Radio: All Things Considered, Morning Edition, Talk of the Nation, Weekend Edition Saturday and Sunday, Fresh Air, Fresh Air Weekend, This American Life, The Linda Belans Show, and The People's Pharmacy. NPR(TM) BOOK REVIEWS FROM WUNC RADIO 4/20 - 4/26/1998 April 20, 1998: All Things Considered: Noah Adams spoke with the author: "Hoops Nation: A Guide to America's Best Pickup Basketball" by Chris Ballard, published by Henry Holt. April 21, 1998: Talk of The Nation: "Strangers Among Us: How Latino Immigration Is Transforming America" by Roberto Suro, published by Knopf. "The Americano Dream" by Lionel Sosa, published by Dutton. "The Children" (Random House 1998), "The Best and the Brightest" (Random House 1969), "The Amateurs" (Morrow 1985), and "Summer of '49" (Morrow 1989), by David Halberstam. April 21, 1998: All Things Considered: Noah Adams talked with the writer: "The Half-Life of Happiness" by John Casey, published by Knopf. April 21, 1998: All Things Considered: An Alan Cheuse review: "The Handsome Sailor" by Larry Duberstein, published by Permanent Press. April 21, 1998: All Things Considered: Linda Wertheimer spoke with the author: "When Memory Speaks: Reflections on Autobiography" by Jill Kerr-Conway, published by Knopf. April 22, 1998: Talk of the Nation: "Uncle Sam's Guide to the Great Outdoors" by Ralph Sagalyn, published by Random House. "Journey to the High Southwest" (1993) by Robert L. Casey, published by Globe Pequot. April 22, 1998: All Things Considered: Lynn Neary profiled the Columbia University Scholar who was the first American to be ordained a Tibetan Buddhist monk: "Inner Revolution: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Real Happiness" by Robert Thurman, published by Riverhead. April 22, 1998: All Things Considered: Noah Adams spoke with the cartoonist: "There's a Hair in My Dirt: A Worm's Story" by Gary Larson, published by HarperCollins. April 23, 1998: Talk of the Nation: Book Club of the Air selection: "Ariel" (1965) by Sylvia Plath, published by HarperPerennial. "Empire by Default: The Spanish-American War and the Dawn of the American Century" by Ivan Musciant, published by Henry Holt. "From Wealth to Power: The Unusual Origins of America's World Role" by Fareed Zakaria, published by Princeton University Press. April 23, 1998: All Things Considered: Linda Wertheimer talked with the attorney and author: "CyberLaw: The Law of the Internet" by Jonathan Rosenoer, published by Springer. April 24, 1998: Talk of the Nation: "Song for the Blue Ocean" by Carl Safina, published by Henry Holt. April 24, 1998: Morning Edition: Bob Edwards talked with the NPR correspondent and author: "We Are Our Mother's Daughters" by Cokie Roberts, published by William Morrow. April 24, 1998: Morning Edition: Katie Heldt-Bausler reported on the Pulitzer Prize winning play: "How I Learned to Drive" by Paula Vogel, published by Dramatists Play Service. April 25, 1998: Weekend All Things Considered: Jacki Lyden spoke with the 12-year-old author: "Sugar Was My Best Food: Diabetes and Me" by Adair Gregory, published by Albert Whitman & Company. April 25, 1998: Weekend All Things Considered: Jacki Lyden talked with Mark Harman about his new translation: "The Castle: A New Translation, Based on the Restored Text" (1930) by Franz Kafka, published by Schocken. April 25, 1998: Weekend Edition: Scott Simon spoke with former Supreme Court clerk and author: "Closed Chambers; The First Eyewitness Account of the Epic Struggles Inside the Supreme Court" by Edward Lazarus, published by Times Books. April 26, 1998: Weekend Edition: Liane Hansen spoke with feminist and psychotherapist: "Letters to a Young Feminist" by Phyllis Chesler, published by Four Walls Eight Windows. Books profiled on Fresh Air with host Terry Gross: April 20, 1998: "Barney Polan's Game" (Seven Stories Press 1998), "Scandals of 51: How the Gamblers Almost Killed College Basketball" (Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1951), "The House of Moses All-Stars" (Harcourt Brace & Co. 1998), The Cockroach Basketball League" (Donald I. Fine 1992), "Players and Pretenders" (Holt, Rinehart, and Winston 1981), "God, Man and Basketball Jones" (Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1979), "A Mile Above the Rim" (Arbor House 1976), "Maverick: More than a Game" (Playboy Press 1975), Have Jump Shot Will Travel: A Novel" (Arbor House 1975) by Charley Rosen. "Our Babies, Ourselves: How Biology and Culture Shape the Way We Are" (Anchor Books), "Female Choices: Sexual behavior of Female Primates" (Cornell University Press 1993), and "What's Love Got To Do With It: The Evolution of Human Mating" (Anchor Books 1995) by Meredith F. Small.. April 21, 1998: "News is a Verb: Journalism at the End of the Twentieth Century" (Ballantine 1998), "Snow in August" (Little Brown 1997), "A Drinking Life: A Memoir" (Little Brown 1994), by Pete Hamill. "The Road to Ubar: Finding the Atlantis of the Sands" by Nicholas Clapp, published by Houghton Mifflin. April 22, 1998: "The Simpsons: A Guide to our Favorite Family" by Matt Groening published by HarperCollins. April 23,1998: "The Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambodia Under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79" (1996) by Ben Kiernan, published by Yale University Press. "Enduring Love" (Doubleday 1997), "The Cement Garden" (Simon and Schuster 1978), "The Comfort of Strangers" (Simon and Schuster 1981), "The Child in Time" (Houghton Mifflin 1987), "The Innocent" (Doubleday 1990), "Black Dogs" (Doubleday 1992), by Ian McEwan April 24, 1998: "The Red Hourglass: Lives of Predators" by Gordon Grice, published by Delacorte Press. Fresh Air Weekend, April 24-26, 1998: "The Simpsons: A Guide to our Favorite Family" by Matt Groening published by HarperCollins. "The Road to Ubar: Finding the Atlantis of the Sands" by Nicholas Clapp, published by Houghton Mifflin. 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) 1998 by WUNC Radio (WUNCRADIO@UNC.EDU) and Don Sechler (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.