NIGHT-TABLE READING

Who reads what between the sheets

MURIEL SPARK (writer): The Tenth Man, by Graham Greene (Simon and Schuster). "When I get a Graham Greene book, I go to my room and lock myself in."

CINDY SHERMAN (photographer): Tales from the One Thousand and One Nights, translated by N. J. Dawood (Penguin). "I'm using the tales as research for my work."

RUSSELL BAKER (humorist): Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, by T. S. Eliot (Harcourt Brace Jovanovkh), and archy & mehitabel, by Don Marquis (Anchor). "I'm putting together an anthology of light verse. Marquis is far superior to Eliot"

CHRISTOPHER DURANG (playwright): The Bible (King James Version). "Sheer delight. I hope Reagan finds a way to force us by law to follow its precepts."