Not Quite Folk, Not Quite Rock 'n' Roll: The Lovin' Spoonful and Their Influence.

Author Daniel Callahan. He is an expert on medical ethics whose latest book is "What Kind of Life: The Limits of Medical Progress." The book questions the assumption that everyone should receive the most life sustaining medical care available. According to Callahan, we need to change our thinking about health and illness and focus on the quality of life rather than the extension of life. (Interview by Sedge Thomson)

Novelist Anne Lamott. Her latest novel, "All New People", is an account of growing up in a Northern California railroad town in the midst of the cultural dislocations of the 1960's. (Interview by Sedge Thomson)

Book critic John Leonard reviews Thomas Pynchon's "Vineland", the first novel in over fifteen years from the author of "V" and "Gravity's Rainbow."