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  • Foreign correspondent for "Newsday," ROY GUTMAN. He and his photographer were the first western journalists to report on genocide in a Serb-run concentration camp. Shortly after the story was published the camp was closed and the Red Cross let in. Their reporting led to public outrage, and official condemnation by the United Nations. GUTTMAN won a Pulitzer Prize for this reporting. The dispatches have now been collected in a new book, "A Witness to Genocide: The 1993 Pulitzer Prize-Winning Dispatches on the 'Ethnic Cleansing' of Bosnia." (Macmillan Publishing). (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE
  • Author ROBB FORMAN DEW. In her novels--"Dale Loves Sophie to Death" (Harper Perennial) and "Fortunate Lives" (Harper Perennial)--DEW explored the ambiguities and intricacies of families. So she thought she understood the complexities of family love. But then her son informed her he is gay. DEW has written a new memoir about her son's coming out and the family evolution that followed. It's her non-fiction debut and it's called "The Family Heart" (Addison-Wesley). (Rebroadcast. Originally aired 5/12/94.
  • 2: Co-founder of the working women's advocacy group, "9 to 5," KAREN NUSSBAUM. She helped found the group 20 years ago. Marty will talk with her about the the changing role of women in the workplace in the last twenty years, and about the concerns of women in the workplace, like childcare.
  • 2: Historian and author GARRY WILLS. He looks at leadership in his new book "Certain Trumpets: The Call of Leaders" (Simon & Shuster). WILLS chooses a broad spectrum of leaders--FDR, Harriet Tubman, Socrates, Martha Graham and others--and examines their leadership qualities and the bases of their success. He looks at the relationship between leading and following. He responds to the charge by some that there is now a dearth of leaders. And he sets forth his understanding of the universal conditions of leadership.
  • Theologian HARVEY COX. His new book is "Fire From Heaven: The Rise of Pentecostal Spirituality and the Reshaping of Religion in the Twenty-first Century" (Addison-Wesley). It is estimated that by the year 2010, there will be more Pentecostals than all other non-Catholic Christians put together. COX traces the growth of the religion from its origins in a converted stable in Los Angeles in 1906 to its present membership of 410 million worldwide. COX is a professor of divinity at Harvard Divinity School, and the author of "The Secular City."
  • Film critic STEPHEN SCHIFF has a review of Little Women.
  • Psychiatrist and novelist RODERICK ANSCOMBE. He oversees a psychiatric ward at a hospital outside of Boston, and has written a new novel that retells the dracula myth, "The Secret Life of Laszlo Count Dracula," (Hyperion). Anscombe says he wanted to "humanize" Dracula, making him more a man than a monster. In writing the book, ANSCOMBE drew on his previous experience working with the criminally insane.
  • 2: Singer/guitarist BOB MOULD. In the 1980's, he pioneered "alternative rock" with the band "Husker Du," making "angry, self-hating music." MOULD went solo for a while after the band fell apart. Now he's with the band "Sugar" and they've released their third album, "File Under: Easy Listening," (Ryko). One reviewer writes of the new release that it "shows Mould near the peak of his power-pop form and harbors a few prominently catchy songs." (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES AFTER THE ATC PROMO).
  • 2: Writer and former "New York Times" advertising columnist RANDALL ROTHENBERG. His new book is "Where the Suckers Moon: An Advertising Story" (Alfred A. Knopf). ROTHENBERG follows Subaru's ad campaign from start to finish, from choosing a new ad agency to the finished commercial's debut during the Superbowl.
  • 2: Life inside "Super Mario Brothers". Journalist DAVID SHEFF gained unprecidented access to the toy wizards at the Nintendo Corporation, and his new book "Game's Over" (Random House) explores the Japanese domination of the video-game market.
  • Rock critic KEN TUCKER reviews two new albums: Jane Siberry''s "When I Was a Boy," and Sheryl Crow''s debut album "Tuesday Night Music Club." (Reprise).
  • Artist ANDRES SERRANO. His 1987 photograph, "Piss Christ," showed the figure of Christ on a cross, in a pool of urine. It was one of the controversial art works which provoked a storm from the political-right that ended up in the halls of Congress. His work was denounced on the Senate floor by Senator Jesse Helms who then began a crusade against the National Endowment for Arts. SERRANO has a new exhibit of photographs taken of bodies in a morgue. (This interview continues into the second half of the
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