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2: Journalist and mystery writer JON KATZ. KATZ is a media critic, . formerly for Rolling Stone and now for New York Magazine. First in KATZ'S "Death by Station Wagon" (Bantam) and now in his newly released "The Family Stalker" (Doubleday), soft boiled detective hero Kit Deleeuw cruises the streets of a fictional suburban community on crime-solving forays in his Volvo station wagon. Deleeuw lost his Wall Street job in the 80's. Now, he is a stay-at-home dad and neighborhood sleuth who has been described by NPR's Morning Edition as a "combination of Sam Spade and Mr. Mom." (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES AFTER ATC

Classical music critic LLOYD SCHWARTZ reviews Christopher O''Riley''s piano versions of three Stravinsky orchestral scores. (Elektra Nonesuch: #9 79343-2).

2: British Journalist TIMOTHY GARTON ASH. George Kennan has compared GARTON ASH's powers of political observation to those of de Toqueville's. ASH's beat is Eastern Europe, and he has been on hand to chronicle the popular disavowal of Communism there (GARTON ASH'S classic account of the Prague Uprising in 1986 is "The Magic Lantern"). His most recent book concerns the German Re-Unification, and what Germany's role will be in the new Europe: "In Europe's Name: Germany & the Divided Continent" (Random House).

2: Writer, feminist, organizer, and the founder of Ms. Magazine, GLORIA STEINEM. She has a new book of essays, "Moving Beyond Words, (Simon & Schuster). In one of the essays she wonders -- what if Freud were female? -- and imagines what life would be like if one of the most "enduring, infuential, and fiercely defended thinkers" in Western civilization were Dr. Phyllis Freud. In her new book STEINEM also reflects on turning 60.

Novelist, journalist and columnist PETE HAMILL. He's written seven novels, including "Flesh and Blood," and "Loving Women." Most recently he was editor-in-chief at the New York Post. He's latest book is a memoir of the years he spent drinking, "A Drinking Life: A Memoir," (Little, Brown & Co.) HAMILL quit drinking twenty years ago. One reviewer in Publishers Weekly writes about HAMILL's new memoir, "This is not a jeremiad condemning drink, however, but a thoughtful, funny, street-smart reflection on its consequences."

2: The French Chef, JULIA CHILD. She spent three decades explaining the mysteries of classic French cuisine to modern American audiences. Child has hosted several cooking shows on public television, earning Peabody and Emmy Awards in the process, and written several cookbooks. Her most recent TV series, "Cooking with Master Chefs" was aired in February and March and will be continued in April 1995. She is also a co-founder of The American Institute of WIne and Food. (REBROADCAST FROM 11

Rock critic KEN TUCKER reviews the second album by the Boston Trio "Morphine." It''s called "Cure for Pain" (Rykodisc).

Stephen Schiff on Spike Lee''s new film "Crooklyn."

Jazz critic KEVIN WHITEHEAD fills in for Stephen Schiff and reveiws two new movie releases--"With Honors" with Joe Pesci and "PCU" with David Spade. They''re both campus comedies.

inguist Geoffrey Nunberg. Dubious about "Estuary English", a new accent in London.

2: Correspondent for The New York Times, MALCOLM BROWNE. He has a memoir about his life as a reporter, "Muddy Boots and Red Socks: A Reporter's Life." (Times Books). He spent two decades as a foreign correspondent for wire services, newspapers, and magazines. He followed troops in Vietnam, and took the famous photographs of Buddhist monks setting themselves on fire in the streets of Saigon. He won a Pulitzer for his coverage of Viet Nam. BROWNE has also covered wars in Cambodia, Punjab, Banglades, North Africa, Latin America, and he was the oldest newsman to cover the Gulf War.

Chilean novelist ISABEL ALLENDE (ah-YEN-day). She's one of the few females in the male-dominated world of Latin American novelists. She's the niece of Chile's ousted President Salvador Allende, who was pushed out during a 1973 coup and assassinated. ISABEL left Chile after the military coup and went to Venezuela. She moved to the U.S. five years ago after falling in love with an American, and now lives in California. Her new book, "The Infinite Plan," (HarperCollins) is the first time she's set a story in the U.S. about a white American family. ALLENDE is also the author of "The House of Spirits," "Of Love and Shadows," and other novels.