Fanfair

Night-table Reading

October 1987
Fanfair
Night-table Reading
October 1987

Night-table Reading

Who reads what between the sheets

Jerry Kosinslci (writer): Select Letters of Seneca, edited by Walter C. Summers (Caratzas). "He's the most perceptive philosopher on the issue of life and death. "

Mariel Hemingway (actress and restaurateur): A Summons to Memphis, by Peter Taylor (Knopf). "As Peter once told me, most people write to show off what they know, but he writes so he can learn about himself. "

Leo Castelli (art dealer): Flaubert's Parrot, by Julian Barnes (Knopf). "Quite fantastic. A literary tour de force. "