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2: Singer-songwriter-poet-performance artist MAGGIE ESTEP. ESTEP calls herself "an angry, sweaty girl." As a teenager, she settled in New York City, and she's been in rock bands since the age of 17. Her current back-up band is called "I love Everybody." She was the cover girl on the February 1994 issue of "High Times" magazine; the article inside called her "the leader of the spoken word pack." She recently had a sold-out one-woman show at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe in Manhattan's Lower East Side. Her debut album is called "No More Mr. Nice Girl." (NuYO Re

Commentator MAUREEN CORRIGAN reviews E.L. Doctorow''s new novel, "The Waterworks."

ROGER CONNOR is founder and Executive Director of the American Alliance for Rights and Responsibilities (AARR), a legal organization aimed at making individuals more responsible for their communities. CONNOR and the AARR have been active in helping communities enact anti-panhandling laws. His group recently drafted a law making it illegal for panhandlers to step in someone's path, or to panhandle in subway stations or at ATM machines. CONNOR talks today about how panhandling affects communities, and what individuals and governments can do to solve the problems of homelessness and poverty

First half, Dave Frishberg. Second half, Ed Ward reviews some tex-mex bands.

Book critic JOHN LEONARD review Philip Roth''s new book, "Operation Shylock."

Book critic JOHN LEONARD reviews "The 60s" a new collection of essays and journal writings by Edmund Wilson from 1960 to 1972.

2: LIONEL DAHMER interview continues.

Steven Schiff reviews Tim Burton''s "Nightmare Before Christmas."

ABDULAZIZ A. SACHEDINA is a professor of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia. He has been studying the recent world-wide rise of Islamic fundamentalism

2: Interview with KEITH HERNANDEZ continues.