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2: 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. (REBROADCAST. ORIGINALLY AIRED 5

2: Sociologist SARA LAWRENCE-LIGHTFOOT has written a new book about the Black middle class, "I've Known Rivers: Lives of Loss and Liberation" (Addison-Wesley Publishing). In the book she follows the lives of six people who are at midlife and in the black middle class, reflecting on the "necessary losses" for the price of privilege. Her book was written, in part, as a response to the 1957 book "Black Bourgeoisie" by the black sociologist Franklin Frazier. LAWRENCE-LIGHTFOOT took issue with Frazier's portrait of middle class blacks as materialistic assimilationists, repressed and disconnected from the larger black community. LIGHTFOOT is herself the product of the Black middle class. Her mother is a child psychoanalyst and was the subject of LIGHTFOOT's 1984 book, "Balm in Gilead: Journey of a Healer." LIGHTFOOT teaches at Harvard and was a recipient of a MacArthur Prize Award.

Book critic JOHN LEONARD reviews "Smilla''s Sense of Snow," the new book by Danish writer Peter Hoeg.

DONNA WILLIAMS. Her first book "Nobody Nowhere" offered a journey through the mysterious condition of autism; it was an international bestseller. Once her case was properly diagnosed, Williams began therapy which took her out of the "world under glass" and into the real world of speech and emotion. This treatment is the subject of her new book "Somebody, Somewhere: Breaking Free from the World of Autism" (Times Books).

Film critic STEPHEN SCHIFF reviews "Love Field," starring Michelle Pfieffer.

Film critic Steven Schiff reviews "Short Cuts"

2: American artist, ROY LICHTENSTEIN. He was one of the inventors of pop art in the 1960's, finding inspiration for his paintings in comic books and advertisments. (More recently, he's found it in the yellow pages of the phone book). LICHTENSTEIN's work often replicates the heavy black outlines, bright colors and dots of a color comic strip found in a newspaper. Called by one critic the "supreme virtuoso of pop", his work is filled with constant references to high and low arts as well as to his own work. The Guggenheim Museum is featuring a retrospective of LICHTENSTEIN's paintings, sculpture, and his stage set-sized murals.

Australian singer NICK CAVE. CAVE and his band "The Bad Seeds," are best known for his angry, twisted ballad-like lyrics. The latest NICK CAVE and The Bad Seeds album, "Let Love In," (Elektra) is marked by a dark, bitter view of love and relationships. NICK CAVE and the Bad Seeds have released eight other albums, and have contributed songs to the last three Wim Wenders films, including "Far Away, So Close," and "Until the End of the World." NICK CAVE and The Bad Seeds are performing in this summer's Lollapalooza concert

2: Gerhard Mare

TV critic DAVID BIANCULLI reviews the debut of David Letterman''s new talk show which premiered last night.