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Horror film director JOHN CARPENTER. He's best known for the film "Halloween," one of the most successful independent films ever ($300,000 budget, over $30 million in receipts). His other credits include "The Thing," "Christine," "Starman," and "Memoirs of an Invisible Man," starring Chevy Chase. His upcoming movie is "Into the Mouth of Madness." (REBROADCAST FROM 10

3: Horror writer PATRICK MCGRATH. McGrath has been described as "a Poe for the 80's," a postmodern-gothic storyteller. Horror writing is a genre that comes easily to McGrath, who grew up on the grounds of an English asylum for the criminally insane. He's written a collection of short stories and several novels. He does a reading from his 1990 book, "Spider" (Poseidon). His latest book is "Doctor Haggard's Disease" (Simon & Schuster), from 1993. (REBROADCAST FROM 9

2: ERNEST GAINES is the author of "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman" and "A Gathering of Old Men." He talks about growing up in rural Louisiana and his new novel, "A Lesson Before Dying" (Knopf), which brings together two black men, one a teacher, the other a death row inmate.

Nigerian writer WOLE SOYINKA (Wo-lay Shaw-INKA) He was the first African to be awarded the Nobel prize for literature (in 1986), and he's been called one of Africa's "finest writers." He is a dramatist, poet, novelist, critic, and political writer. Some of his works have been banned by Nigerian regimes. He's gone into exile several times and has been imprisoned for political protests. He's written 21 books, including "Myth, Literature, and the African World," and his autobiography, "Ake': The Years of Childhood." (Ventura books).

Columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer, STEVE LOPEZ. His first novel, "Third and Indiana" (Viking), was published in September. It's about life in Philadelphia's "Badlands." The origin of the story was a two-paragraph item LOPEZ read in the paper about a 14 year-old boy shot and killed on a drug corner in North Philadelphia. LOPEZ was disturbed by the casualness and brevity of the report. Terry talks with LOPEZ about his new book, and about his popular columns spearing local politicians. (REBROADCAST FROM 9

Rock critic KEN TUCKER reviews two new country albums -- Hal Ketchum''s "Every Little Word," (Curb Records) and David Ball''s "thinkin'' Problem." (Warner Bros.) REV. 2: Jazz critic KEVIN WHITEHEAD reviews Keith Jarrett''s new album, "At the Deer Head Inn." Jarrett, on piano, teams up with bassist Gary Peacock and drummer Paul Motian. (ECM Records/BMG Cla

"Wall Street Journal" senior writer JANE MAYER is co-author of "Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas" (Houghton Mifflin). MAYER and her co-author, Jill Abramson, investigated sexual harassment allegations against Thomas made by Anita Hill. They found other women who had had similar experiences with Thomas, but who were never called to testify. They wanted to write an objective account of the process, and they bring their harshest criticism on the Senate Judiciary Committee.

2: PENNSYLVANIA GOVERNOR ROBERT P. CASEY. June 14th will be the first anniversary of his "return from the dead." Last year when he was close to death from a fatal liver disease that was destroying his heart, CASEY received a heart and liver transplant. The donor was a young African American man who was savagely beaten by drug dealers. CASEY talks about his second chance at life. And he discusses his views--pre and post-surgery--on political issues of life and death such as abortion and the death penalty.

Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews "Stranger Than Fiction." It''s the new album from Bad Religion. REV. 2: Commentator MAUREEN CORRIGAN reviews the 25th anniversary edition of "Portnoy''s Complaint" by Philip Roth.

2: Rock and roll critic DAVE MARSH talks about the song "Louie, Louie". He's written a book about it called, "Louie, Louie: The History and Mythology of the World's Most Famous Rock 'n' Roll Song: Including the Full Details of Its Torture and Persecution at the Hands of the Kingsmen, J. Edgar Hoover's F.B.I., and a Cast of Millions; and Introducing, for the First Time Anywhere, the Actual Dirty Lyrics." (Hyperion) The song was written by Richard Berry in 1957...as a talke of a lovesick Jamaican sailor. When the Kingsmen recorded it in 1957, the lyrics were incomprehensible and mistaken for being dirty. It set off a series of events that Marsh details in his book.