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Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews two sequels to literary classics, "Sherlock Holmes" and "Pride and Prejudice."

HELEN PREJEAN (pray-ZSAHN)'s book, "Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States" (Random House) details her experience working with death row inmates in Louisiana. Prejean has come to believe that the death penalty is not only ineffective as a deterrent, but that the government can't be trusted to decide who should live and who should die. Prejean is a Roman Catholic nun

2: Producer JEFF APPLE and writer JEFF MAGUIRE. Their latest project is the new film, "In the Line of Fire," starring Clint Eastwood as a burnt-out Secret Service agent, haunted by the assassination of President Kennedy. APPLE has produced hundreds of TV commercials as well as documentaries and promotional films. He came up with the idea for the film, and approached MAGUIRE to write the film script.

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2: Concert with the McGarrigles continues.

2: Writer CYNTHIA HEIMEL is a columnist for The Village Voice, and a witty observer of what goes on between men and women in this society. Her books include, "Sex Tips for Girls," "Enough About You," and "If You Can't Live Without Me, Why Aren't You Dead Yet?" Her latest book is "Get Your Tongue out of my Mouth, I'm Kissing You Goodbye!" (Atlantic Monthly Press). The book begins with an intro by her son, Brodie, who HEIMEL has written about in her columns. Terry will talk with CYNTHIA and BRODIE HEIMEL.

Book critic JOHN LEONARD reviews, "In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead," by James Lee Burke.

Novelist AMITAV GHOSH. (AHM-eh-TAUV GOSH) He was born in Calcutta and studied in India, Britian, and Egypt. He has a new novel, "In An Antique Land," (Knopf) which tells the story of two Indians in Egypt: a 12th century slave who GHOSH had read about, and GHOSH's own trip to Egypt to find out about the slave's life. GHOSH will also talk with Terry about the violence in India between Muslims and Hindus.

Maureen Corrigan on "A Very Long Engagement" by Sebastien Japrisot. (YAP-ri-sow) (Rebroadcast from 12/8/93).

2: Adventure writer TIM CAHILL. CAHILL writes in a self-deprecating way about his death-defying experiences around the world. His accounts of adventures in caves, mountains, deserts, and rapids appear in his collections, "A Wolverine is Eating My Leg,"and "Jaguars Ripped My Flesh." He's also a columnist for "Outside Magazine." Last summer, CAHILL traveled to the North Pole on an old Soviet Ice-breaker, and currently he is working on a book describing his travels in the unexplored and uninhabited Ndoke Forest of the northern Congo. (RE-BROADCAST of interview first aired 4/5/89.)Travel author and novelist, PAUL THEROUX. THEROUX is no ordinary travel writer: his books are about exotic voyages, some by train, and others by foot. His work includes "The Great Railway Bazaar," "The Old Patagonian Express," and "The Kingdom By The Sea." He's also a novelist, perhaps best known for "The Mosquito Coast," which became a film starring Harrison Ford. THEROUX'S most recent book, published this past February, is a fictional work titled "Millroy the Magician" (Random House). (RE-BROADCAST of interview first aired 7