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Writer PHILIP ROTH. He's best known for his books, "Goodbye, Columbus," and "Portnoy's Complaint." Since the publication of his first book, ROTH has been controversial for his treatment of Jewish themes. Some readers think his satirical take is anti-Semitic. His book "Portnoy's Complaint," (1969) a sexual autobiography of a young lawyer, was labeled obscene by some because of its descriptions of masturbation and sexual conquest. Though the literary critics liked it, "a deliciously funny book, absurd and exuberant, wild and uproarious." He's written a number of books since then, including an autobiography, "The Facts," and a portrait of his father, "Patrimony: A True Story," (1989) which was admired for being "deeply resonant." Roth has also edited the Writers from Other Europe series for Penguin Books. He has a new book, "Operation Shylock." (Simon & Sch

WORLD music commentator Milo Miles on the rebirth of rock and roll -- in Mexico.

2: Jazz musician JOSHUA REDMAN. A self-taught tenor saxophonist, REDMAN has a new album, "Wish," which is his second album released this year. REDMAN won the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Saxophone Competition in 1991. Son of renowned free-jazz saxophonist Dewey Redman, JOSHUA REDMAN had the most influence from his mother who raised him alone. After REDMAN graduated summa cum laude from Harvard in 1991 he decided to pursue his love of jazz.

Television executive GRANT TINKER has written a memoir about his life in TV. "Tinker in Television: From General Sarnoff to General Electric" (Simon & Schuster). TINKER was co-founder of the production company MTM Enterprises with his then wife Mary Tyler Moore. He left MTM at the peak of its sucsess to become the chairman of NBC, and made it the top-rated network, with shows like "Cheers," "The COsby Show," and "St. Elsewhere."

Film critic STEPHEN SCHIFF reviews the film "Reality Bites," a comedy about Love in the ''90''s, directed by Ben Stiller and starring Winona Ryder and Ethan Hawke.

RICHARD PRICE wrote and produced the new movie "Mad Dog and Glory," which stars Robert Deniro, Bill Murray and Uma Thurman. His most recent novel is the best seller, "Clockers," (published by Houghton Mifflin). Christopher Lehmann-Haupt of The New York Times wrote "the signal achievement of "Clockers' is to make us feel the enormous power of these giants that are drugs, alcoholism, poverty." PRICE also wrote the screenplays for, "The Color of Money," "Sea of Love," and Martin Scorcese's section of "New York Stories.

2: Actress ANGELA BASSETT. She recently had the intimidating job of playing Tina Turner in the new film, "What's Love Got to Do with it." Her performance has been widely praised. BASSETT's other roles include the mother of a troubled teenager in "Boyz N the Hood," and the wife of the black Muslim leader in Spike Lee's "Malcolm X."

Terry talks with New Yorker writer JOHN SEABROOK about the downside of electronic mail. Then she gets a response from STEWART BRAND, the inventor of The Well, a computer conference system. . . Last January SEABROOK wrote an article in the New Yorker magazine about Microsoft chairman, Bill Gates. SEABROOK was flooded with electronic mail as a result, and to his surprise he was "flamed" for the first time. In Internet jargon, to be "flamed" is to receive an obscene or derogatory E-mail message. SEABROOK said he'd never received anything like it before. His article about the lawless frontier of computer networks appears in the May 30, 1994 issue of the magazine, "My First Flame." STEWART BRAND is an inventor and designer who founded the Whole Earth Catalog, and The WELL, (the Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link) a computer teleconference system.

Editor, author, and Jewish theologian MICHAEL LERNER is founder and editor of "Tikkun" magazine, a bimonthly Jewish critique of politics, culture, and society. In his new book, "Jewish Renewal: A Path to Healing and Transformation" (G.P. Putnam's Sons), LERNER presents a new interpretation of Jewish texts and history, and a new approach to God and prayer.

Doctor of Psychology and editorial writer for the New York Times, BRENT STAPLES. His new memoir is "Parallel Time: Growing Up in Black & White" (Pantheon). In 1984, Staples' younger brother, a cocaine dealer, was murdered. Staples began a process of reconsideration of the major questions in his life: his distance from his family by graduate study at the University of Chicago; the demise and racial divisions of his industrial hometown in Pennsylvania. On missing his brother's memorial, Staples writes "Choose carefully the funerals you miss." (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE