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 4/15 - 4/21 1996 April 15, 1996: Talk of the Nation: "War Before Civilization: The Myth of the Peaceful Savage" by Lawrence Keeley, published by Oxford University Press. "Ride of the Second Horseman: The Birth and Death of War" by Robert O'Connell, published by Oxford University Press. April 15, 1996: Linda Wertheimer spoke with the reporter: "God Has 99 Names: Reporting from a Militant Middle East" by Judith Miller, published by Simon and Schuster. April 16, 1996: Talk of the Nation: "Bordering on Chaos: Guerrillas, Stockbrokers, Politicians, and Mexico's Road to Prosperity" by Andrea Oppenheimer, published by Little, Brown. "Mexico in Tradition: Implications for U.S. Policy" by Susan Kaufman Purcell, published by Council on Foreign Relations. April 17, 1996: Talk of the Nation: "Jaguars Ripped My Flesh", "A Wolverine Is Eating My Leg", and "Pecked to Death by Ducks" by Tim Cahill, reissued by Vintage. "Cuba and the Night", "Falling Off the Map", and "Video Night in Kathmandu" by Pico Iyer, published by Vintage. April 18, 1996: Poet Laureate Robert Hass read his poem "Spring Rain" on Morning Edition. April 18, 1996: Talk of the Nation: "A Force Upon the Plain: The American Militia Movement and the Politics of Hate" by Kenneth Stern, published by Simon and Schuster. April 18, 1996: An Alan Cheuse Book Review: "Footprints" by Shelby Hearon, published by Knopf: A novel about a marriage and a family which are falling apart. April 20, 1996: Two poems on Weekend Edition Saturday in honor of National Poetry Month: Hilary Tham's poems and memoirs are published by Three Continents Press. Alberto Rios' poetry books are published by W.W. Norton. He also wrote "Pig Cookies and Other Stories" available from Chronicle Books. April 21, 1996: Liane Hansen spoke with the author: "Cold Shoulder" by Lynda LaPlante, published by Random House: April 21, 1996: Poet Laureate Robert Hass read Robert Frost's poem "A Prayer in Spring" on Weekend All Things Considered. Books profiled on Fresh Air with host Terry Gross: April 15, 1996: "In the Blink of an Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing" by Walter Murch, published by Silman-James Press. April 16, 1996: "Violence: Our Deadly Epidemic and Its Causes" by James Gilligan, published by Grosset/Putnam. REVIEW by Maureen Corrigan: "Sin and Censorship: The Catholic Church and the Motion Picture Industry" by Frank Walsh, published by Yale University Press. April 17, 1996: "Gathering Storm: America's Militia Threat" by Morris Dees, published by HarperCollins. April 18, 1996: "Report From Iron Mountain" by Leonard Lewin, reissued by the Free Press, with an introduction by Victor Navasky: Navasky talked about this book, written as a literary hoax in 1967. It's now been picked up by a number of extreme-right fringe groups "as proof of a secret government plot to suppress personal liberties". "God: A Biography" by Jack Miles, published by Vintage. April 19, 1996: "Stay Tuned: An Inside Look at the Making of Prime-Time Television" and "Off Camera: Conversations with the Makers of Prime-Time Television" by William Link and Richard Levinson, both books are no longer in print.. Book mentioned on Soundings, April 21, 1996: "The Sharpshooter Blues" by Lewis Nordan, published by Algonquin. "Jackson Street and Other Soldier Stories" by John A. Miller, published by Orloff Press. Book review listings are available on the internet via anonymous ftp (sunsite.unc.edu /pub/academic/literature/book-reviews) and by gopher to sunsite.unc.edu under the NEWS! option. 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.