Night-table Reading

Suzanne Douglas(actress): Intimate Partners, by Maggie Scarf (Ballantine). "I'm getting married in February and this book makes me aware of the baggage people bring into relationships. "

Penn and Teller (magicians): Penn—Flim Flam!, by James Randi (Prometheus). "This book exposes the charlatan's methods of bilking the New Age sheep. " Teller—Endgame,by Samuel Beckett (Grove Press). "It's a play about emptiness and despair in a godless universe. It always gives me a hearty laugh. "

John Russell (art critic): Less than One,by Joseph Brodsky (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). "It gives a new twist to both biography and autobiography and, with that, an incomparable portrait of the author's native Leningrad. "

Mickey Mouse (actor): Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck (Bantam). "I guess it was the title that first caught my eye, but I've been drawn to the classics ever sinceFantasia,and now that I'm turning sixty they're mostly what l read."