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2: British Journalist TIMOTHY GARTON ASH. George Kennan has compared GARTON ASH's powers of political observation to those of de Toqueville's. ASH's beat is Eastern Europe, and he has been on hand to chronicle the popular disavowal of Communism there (GARTON ASH'S classic account of the Prague Uprising in 1986 is "The Magic Lantern"). His most recent book concerns the German Re-Unification, and what Germany's role will be in the new Europe: "In Europe's Name: Germany & the Divided Continent" (Random House).

A remembrance of writer JOHN PRESTON who died of AIDS. We play an excerpt from a 1992 interview.

ommentator MAUREEN CORRIGAN reviews "The Buccaneers," (Viking) the final novel by Edith Wharton. It was published as an unfinished novel after Wharton''s death in 1937. Now it''s been completed -- by scholar and novelist Marion Mainwaring -- and published again.

Rock critic KEN TUCKER reviews the second album by the Boston Trio "Morphine." It''s called "Cure for Pain" (Rykodisc).

Jazz critic KEVIN WHITEHEAD reviews "The Montreal Tapes," (Verve), a live recording featuring bassist Charlie Haden, trumpeter Don Cherry, and drummer Edward Blackwell at the 1989 Montreal Jazz Festival.

Jazz critic KEVIN WHITEHEAD fills in for Stephen Schiff and reveiws two new movie releases--"With Honors" with Joe Pesci and "PCU" with David Spade. They''re both campus comedies.

World Music Critic MILO MILES talks about Soukous music...it''s a popular style of guitar music from Zaire. He reviews four recently released Soukous albums.

Novelist, journalist and columnist PETE HAMILL. He's written seven novels, including "Flesh and Blood," and "Loving Women." Most recently he was editor-in-chief at the New York Post. He's latest book is a memoir of the years he spent drinking, "A Drinking Life: A Memoir," (Little, Brown & Co.) HAMILL quit drinking twenty years ago. One reviewer in Publishers Weekly writes about HAMILL's new memoir, "This is not a jeremiad condemning drink, however, but a thoughtful, funny, street-smart reflection on its consequences."

2: Correspondent for The New York Times, MALCOLM BROWNE. He has a memoir about his life as a reporter, "Muddy Boots and Red Socks: A Reporter's Life." (Times Books). He spent two decades as a foreign correspondent for wire services, newspapers, and magazines. He followed troops in Vietnam, and took the famous photographs of Buddhist monks setting themselves on fire in the streets of Saigon. He won a Pulitzer for his coverage of Viet Nam. BROWNE has also covered wars in Cambodia, Punjab, Banglades, North Africa, Latin America, and he was the oldest newsman to cover the Gulf War.

2: Columnist and commentator MURRAY KEMPTON. The New Yorker says he's "surely among the greatest of all living newspapermen" . . . "the one true original in the business." For years he wrote a column for the old New York Post. Now he writes for New York Newsday and The New York Review of Books. At 76, he bicycles around Manhatten in his elegant attire to gather material for his columns on the City's "rebels, losers and rascals." His latest book is a collection of his newspaper pieces. It's called "Rebellions, Perversities and Main Events" (Times Books/Random House).