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Host Liane Hansen speaks with Haitian-born writer Edwidge anticat (ed-WEEZHE DAN-ti-caht) about her latest book, "KRIK KRAK ?!" (Soho ress). Danticat left Haiti when she was 12 years old. The book is a collection f short stories set in Haiti, on the high seas and in the United States.

TONY VARONE remembers V.E. DAY 50 years ago today. He served in the 9th Infantry Division which fought in Europe. He now is Commander of VFW POST in Long Island, New York. DONALD PEARCE fought in Europe in the Canadian Army. Peace kept a diary during his tour of duty. His 1965 book Journal Of A War: North-west Europe 1944-1945 chronicles the battles fought in Belgian and the Netherlands.

Stand-up comic JIMMY TINGLE. (REBROADCAST FROM 6/1/90)Filmmaker PAUL MAZURSKY. Mazursky's movies include "Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice," "Enemies: A Love Story," "Down and Out In Beverly Hills" and "Scenes From a Mall." (REBROADCAST FROM 2/18/91)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. DEW made her non-fiction debut with a memoir about her son's coming out and the family evolution that followed. It's called The Family Heart and it's just been published in paperback (Ballantine). (REBROADCAST FROM 5/12/94)Writer GARY PAULSEN. He is a prolific writer of children's books. He began writing over twenty years ago, when he was coming to terms with his alcoholism. In 1985, PAULSON won the Newberry Award for children's fiction with Dogsong. He reads from his memoir Eastern Sun, Western Moon. (REBROADCAST FROM 4/12/93)DOROTHY BEAM-Her son Joe Beam died of AIDS in 1989. He was a writer who was in the process of editing his second anthology of Black gay writing. Dorothy helped finish the work her son started, and it was published in 1992 as Brother to Brother: New Writings by Black Gay Men (Alyson Publications). (REBROADCAST FROM 2/

SPORTS: SCOTT SIMON AND WEEKEND EDITION SPORTS COMMENTATOR RON RAPOPORT TALK ABOUT VETERAN N.F.L. QUARTERBACK JOE MONTANA, WHO WILL ANNOUNCE HIS RETIREMENT NEXT WEEK.

Daniel talks with brain surgeon Richard Fraser of New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center about the aftermath of Abraham Lincoln's assassination 130 years ago Friday. Fraser maintains that the bullet John Wilkes Booth fired would have disabled the president but need not have killed him. Shoddy medical care, even by nineteenth century standards, served only to worsen the dire situation.

STARK: Popular culture commentator Steven Stark looks into his rystal ball and sees a nation obsessed with psychic and astrological affairs

NPR's Peter Kenyon reports on the latest in the investigation of the bombing last week in Oklahoma city. Authorities are pursuing leads across the country in an effort to find the suspect John Doe #2 and any others with potential links to the blast.

2: Writer/Director KAYO HATTA. Hatta's film "Picture Bride," is the story of a young woman who moves to Hawaii as a "picture bride." Picture brides were Japanese women who moved to Hawaii in order to marry the Japanese plantation workers who settled there. The women would only have seen a picture of their future husband before they were married. The film is HATTA'S first commercial release and the first Hawaiian production to gain a commercial release. "Picture Bride," won the 1995 Sundance Film Festival Audience Award for best dramatic film.

2: Biologist EDWARD O. WILSON has been called "The Ant Man" by The New York Times Magazine. He has spent most of his life studying ants and other insects, and has written a number of books on the subject. He co-authored the critically-acclaimed The Ants with Bert Holldobler. The pair have just published a sequel to that work, Journey to the Ants (The Belkap Press of Harvard University Press), and WILSON has written a memoir, Naturalist (Island Press), that chronicles his love of ants. (REBROADCAST FROM 10

G. Gordon Liddy, who has been in the news lately because of harsh nti-government remarks he made on his radio talk show, is, according to NPR enior news analyst Daniel Schorr, a man who has always operated "on the edge"

TELEVISION VIEWING: Commentator Mike Renfro gives us his TV "wish ist."

LETTERS: We hear a few comments and letters from our listeners