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Writer EDMUND WHITE. He has been called "unquestionably the foremost American gay novelist." WHITE's novels draw significantly from his own experiences in a style he calls "auto-fiction." In his newest book, "Genet: A Biography" (Knopf), WHITE documents the life of controversial French writer, Jean Genet. (The book just won the National Book Critic's Circle Award for biography). Genet had a reputation as a dandy, a thief, a vagabond --- a "thug of genius." WHITE calls him "one of France's most original and forceful novelists of the twentieth century." WHITE has also written "Forgetting Elena," "A Boy's Own Story," and six other books of fiction and non-fiction. (REBROADCAST from 11

Writer A.E. HOTCHNER. His memoir "King of the Hill" (Harper), about growing up in a flophouse during the depression, was made into a movie, directed by Stephen Soderbergh (the directer of "Sex, Lives, and Videotape"). Hotchner is best known for his controversial 1966 biography of his personal friend Ernest Hemingway, "Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir." Presented in the unusual form of dialogue, Hotchner faced criticism from the literary community and an attempt by Hemingway's widow to ban the sale of the book. (Rebroadcast from 8-23-93).

2: Author HENRY ALFORD. Newsday reviewer Adam Begley mused about what to call ALFORD. "New York prankster?" Manhattan Monkeyshine Maven?" "Gotham Caparist?" His publisher calls him an investigative humorist. ALFORD has chronicled his offbeat investigations in his new book "Municipal Bondage: One Man's Anxiety-Producing Adventures in the Big City." (Random House.) ALFORD writes of his efforts to enter professions for which he was completely untutored--cosmetologist, snack food creator, dog groomer, earlobe model. He includes essays about city life and ventures into the realm of the hypothetical in sections beginning with the phrase "Whatif . . .?"

2: Psychologist MARY PIPHER has worked mostly with teenage girls for over ten years. She's witnessed the "oppression" of teenage girls today, more pronounced than that of their mothers because of the "more dangerous, sexualized and media saturated culture." She argues also that something happens to girls when they reach adolescence, that they lose their "assertive, energetic and 'tomboyish' personalities" to become "more deferential, self-critical and depressed." PIPHER has found greater incidents of eating disorders, self-mutiliation, underachievement and depression among her clients. PIPHER's new book is "Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls." (Putnam) (REBROADCAST from 25 April

Singer OTIS WILLIAMS. He was the founder of The Temptations, whose smooth five-part harmonies and synchronized dance steps made them one of the hottest of Motown's super groups. Their hits included "My Girl," "Just My Imagination," and "Pappa Was a Rolling Stone." (REBROADCAST FROM 9

Writer LAWRENCE BLOCK with a reading from his new novel, "A Long Line of Dead Men" (William Morrow). It''s the newest in his series about his detective hero, Matthew Scudder.

2: PARNELL HALL has been an actor, a private detective and a screenwriter -- he wrote the screenplay for the horror movie C.H.U.D. Now he is a novelist, writing mysteries featuring Stanley Hastings, a failed actor and

Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews the new Donald Fagen solo record "Kamakiriad" (Reprise), which was produced by Fagen''s longtime Steely Dan cohort, Walter Becker.

RUSS RYMER is a journalist who has written for The New Yorker, the New York Times, and the Washington Post. He has just written his first book, "Genie," (Harper Collins) which began as a couple of New Yorker articles last year. It's about the discovery in 1970 of a "wild-child," a thirteen year old girl who had lived her entire life locked in a room of her parent's house. Genie had no language or social skills. Her discovery coincided with a raging debate among scientists about the origin of language. Michael Dorris writes about the book, "At once a scientific detective story and an examination of professional ethics. . . disturbing, enlightening, and impossible to forget."

T-V critic DAVID BIANCULLI reviews the latest of MTV''s "Unplugged" concert series, featuring Tony Bennett.