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2: Interview with MIKAL GILMORE continues.

Mystery writer WALTER MOSLEY. He's written a new book in his series about gumshoe hero Easy Rawlins. It's called "Black Betty" (Norton). Betty's a shark of a woman who leaves dead men in her wake. Like the other books in the series, "Black Betty" has Easy in post-War, but pre-present South Central L.A.--this time the year is 1961. MOSLEY gained public attention when then-presidential candidate Bill Clinton said that MOSLEY was his favorite mystery writer. MOSLEY'S earlier Easy Rawlins book "Devil in a Blue Dress" will be released as a movie this spring. Denzel Washington will play Easy.

We rebroadcast a 1991 live concert with jazz pianist, singer, and lyricist DAVE FRISHBERG. Frishberg's long been known for his satirical songs, such as "My Attorney Bernie," and "I'm Hip" (written with Bob Dorough), and the "I'm a Bill" segment for ABC's Schoolhouse Rock series. A record of his songs is "Quality Time" (Sterling Records), and a new record of standards (as pianist) with singer Rebecca Kilgore is "Looking At You." (PHD Music, Portland, Oregon). (Rebrodcast from (9/12/91).

Actor SAMUEL JACKSON. JACKSON won critical raves for his portrayal of a crack addict named Gator in the Spike Lee film, "Jungle Fever." That role was a breakthrough for Jackson after 20 years of bit parts, commercials, and all types of theater. He also put in two years as Bill Cosby's stand-in on The Cosby Show. Jackson currently appears in the new film "Fresh", and in perhaps this fall's most anticipated release, "Pulp Fiction."(REBROADCAST. Originally aired 7

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"