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Rock critic KEN TUCKER reviews "Monster," the new release by R.E.M. (Warner Brothers). REV. 2: Commentator MAUREEN CORRIGAN reviews "The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Modern Age" by Harold Bloom (Harcourt Brace).

Musician BOOTSY COLLINS got his start with James Brown, where he "defined the finger-popping funk bass style" (Rolling Stone). He went on to work with George Clinton as part of the Parliment-Funkadelic tribe, before forming Bootsy's Rubber Band. On stage, he created alter egos, including Bootzilla, Boot-Tron, and King of the Geepies. He's put out more than 30 albums, and has just released "Blasters of the Universe" (Rykodisc), with a new band.

2: Health care reporter LAURIE KAYE ABRAHAM. For her new book, "Mama Might Be Better Off Dead: the Failure of Health Care in Urban America" (U of Chigago), ABRAHAM spent three years with a poor African American family studying the problem of lack of access to medical care. ABRAHAM reveals how difficult it is for a poor family to make sense of Medicaid and Medicare, and the discrimination that blacks face in trying to find health care.

Commentator and city-dweller Maureen Corrigan on venturing carless into the suburbs.

Rock historian ED WARD has a review. INT. 2: DANIEL SCHORR is the Senior News Analyst for National Public Radio. Previously, he was the CBS Chief Watergate Correspondent. After ending up on Nixon''s "enemy list," SCHORR resigned from CBS in 1976, and wrote a book about the Watergate scandal called "Clearing the Air." Before joining CBS, SCHORR was a foreign correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor and The New York Times. Recently he narrated a five-part BBC documentary on the Discovery channel, "Watergate." (REBROADCAST from 8/3/94)REV. 2: World Music Critic MILO MILES has a review. Subject TBA.

2: Children's book writer and illustrator MAURICE SENDAK. He's been at it for over 40 years. His books are classics: "Where the Wild Things Are," "In the Night Kitchen," and others. They are "unsentimental fantasizes" (LA Times Magazine), challenging the belief that children should be protected from their fears and anxieties. In all, SENDAK has illustrated 80 children's books (19 of which he wrote). He's also designed over 10 opera sets, including one for "The Nutcracker." (REBROADCAST FROM 10

Sociology professor JOHN GAGNON co-authored the new book "Sex in America: A Definitive Survey" (Little, Brown). This two year study overturns common beliefs about sexual practices in America, and finds that "the public image of sex in America bears virtually no relationship to the truth." GAGNON claims that this study is more representative of the population because they used a scientifically selected group, instead of a random sample.

Commentator MAUREEN CORRIGAN reviews E.L. Doctorow''s latest novel, "The Waterworks."

2: Independent film director, producer and writer ROSE TROCHE (Tro-SHAY). She and co-producer and co-writer Guinevere Turner have made the new lesbian comedy, "Go Fish." The movie is being hailed as the newest "crossover hit." The two say they wanted to make a film about the community they lived in: "young, urban, multicultural, out, and burning up the phone lines gossiping about who went home with who last night." (The film played at the New York Lesbian and Gay Film festival in May, and opens at the San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, June 9. It's commercial release is set for Jun

Tribute to Randy Shiltz who died of AIDS.