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Writer MIKAL GILMORE, youngest brother of executed killer Gary Gilmore. Gilmore's 1977 death --at his own request-- by firing squad in Utah, was the first American execution in ten years. Brother MIKAL finds seeds of his brother's two murders sown far back in Gilmore family history, and its Mormon roots. When asked why he writes a memoir twenty years after the events many Americans remember from Norman Mailer's book "Executioner's Song", GILMORE says, "I'm writing about it now because for many years I tried to live my life as if I wasn't a member of the same family. I put a good deal of distance between myself and other people in my family, and between myself and the history of my family." Recapturing that history is the aim of his new memoir, "Shot in the Heart" (Doubleday).

Mary Previte, superintendent of the Camden County (NJ) Youth Center. Previte, the great granddaughter of missionary pioneer Hudson Taylor, grew up in China with her missionary parents. During World War II, she and her fellow students and teachers spent three years in a Japanese concentration camp. Previte credits the structure her teachers' created with making the horrific experience bearable. For the past twenty years, Previte has run the youth center, a holding center for boys and girls charged with serious crimes. She has applied the lessons of her teachers to the center, creating a place of structure and security for children used to violent, chaotic lives. Her new book, "Hungry Ghosts" (Zondervan), relates her experience as head of this acclaimed youth center and her own life story.

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Critic KEVIN WHITEHEAD reviews the new movie "Shadowlands" starring Anthony Hopkins and Deborah Winger. It''s based on the lives of British writer C.S. Lewis and the American poet who became his wife, Joy Gresham. Whitehead, who is Fresh Air''s regular jazz critic, is filling in for film critic STEPHEN SCHIFF this week.

Maureen Corrigan reviews "Rameau''s Niece," the new novel by Cathleen Schine.

Writer ANNE LAMOTT has written a new book about being a mother for the first time (and single, at that), "Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year." (Pantheon Books). One reviewer writes of the book, "an emotional roller coaster ride. Painfully honest, laced with humor and poetry and moments of profound insight, it captures the intense fluctuations of feeling, the rapid alternation of exhilaration and fury, love and despair, that characterizes new parenthood." LAMOTT is also the author of the novels, "Hard Laughter," and "All New People."

Instead of an arts review, more with DERREK PENNY. (REBROADCAST from 12

TV critic DAVID BIANCULLI reviews Bill Moyers new series, "Healing and the Mind," on PBS about alternative medicines and medical treatments.

A rebroadcast of our first interview with JOHN UPDIKE from March, 17, 1988, following the publication of his novel "S" - a modern story drawn from Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter." UPDIKE talks with Terry about literature, life, and why he hates being interviewed.

Book critic JOHN LEONARD reviews the new historical novel, "The Rape of the Rose," by Glwn (GLEN) Hughes, about the Luddite rebellion in England. (Simon & Schuster).