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Novelist SCOTT SPENCER. His new book, Men In Black (Knopf), was called "charmingly funny-sad" by the New York Times. His previous books include Last Night at the Brain Thieves' Ball, Endless Love, and Waking the Dead. SPENCER has been writing for most of his life, but says that "there is really nothing interesting about my life of a biographical nature -- born, raised, educated, etc., etc.

2: Writer MARTIN AMIS, author of The Information (Harmony Books). The book is about rivalry in the literary world, which some have said parallels AMIS' own life. Britain's literary world was shocked when AMIS demanded a half-million pound advance on The Information, supposedly to pay for his divorce and costly dental work, and then dumped his long-time agent, who was also the wife of his best friend. The New York Times has called The Information "an uncompromising and highly ambitious novel that should also be a big popular hit." REV 1: Book critic MAUREEN CORRIGAN reviews Scott Spencer's new book, Men In Black (

Rock critic KEN TUCKER reviews Joan Osborne''s debut album "Relish."

2: DR. ROBERT TEMPLE, Director of the FDA's Office of Drug Evaluation. TEMPLE is a large figure in Thomas Moore's new book. He is the man Moore says let the harmful drugs remain on the market virtually unrestricted, even though the risks were known. He gives the reason why the FDA let the drugs remain on the market.

2: Biologist EDWARD O. WILSON has been called "The Ant Man" by The New York Times Magazine. He has spent most of his life studying ants and other insects, and has written a number of books on the subject. He co-authored the critically-acclaimed The Ants with Bert Holldobler. The pair have just published a sequel to that work, Journey to the Ants (The Belkap Press of Harvard University Press), and WILSON has written a memoir, Naturalist (Island Press), that chronicles his love of ants. (REBROADCAST FROM 10

mmentator GERALD EARLY reflects on saxophonist Charlie Parker. His commentary is inspired by "Charlie Parker with Strings: The Master Takes" (Clef Records).

SPORTS: HOST ALEX CHADWICK SPEAKS WITH WEEKEND EDITION SPORTS COMMENTATOR RON RAPOPORT ABOUT THE NEW MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL SEASON, WHERE FANS HAVE REACTED HARSHLY TO THE LAST YEAR'S STRIKE WITH ROWDYISM TOWARD PLAYERS AND BY STAYING AWAY FROM GAMES.

SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH PAUL PATTERSON, HEAD OF COMPOSITION AND CONTEMPORARY MUSIC AT THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF MUSIC IN LONDON, ABOUT A WORK BY HUNGARIAN COMPOSER GYORGY (Gzeorgze) LIGETI (LIH-gih-tee), PERFORMED LAST WEEK AT THE INTERNATIONAL COMPOSERS FESTIVAL IN LONDON SO DIFFICULT TO PLAY...IT HAD TO BE PERFORMED BY A COMPUTER.

Defense analyst and professor MICHAEL KLARE, author of Rogue States and Nuclear Outlaws: America's Search for a New Foreign Policy. (Hill and Wang/Farrar, Straus & Giroux). The book explores the current tendency of the Pentagon to focus on Third World countries as the new threat to U.S. national security. KLARE is defense correspondent for The Nation, a frequent commentator on National Public Radio, and Professor of Peace and World Security Studies at Hampshire College

2: PAUL SIMMS, creator of the new NBC sit-com "News Radio." This is SIMMS' first entry into the world of sit-coms but SIMMS previously worked as writer for both the "The Larry Sanders Show," and "Late Night with David Letterman." He also wrote for Spy Magazine.