Night-table Reading

Christopher Mason

(singer-songwriter): Bicycle Days, by John Burnham Schwartz (Summit). "It's an exquisitely told tale of coming of age and I'm deeply envious.''

Cindy Crawford (model):

Frida, by Hayden Herrera (Harper & Rote). "Reading Georgia O'Keeffe's biography inspired me to read this one. Frida Kahlo was a woman who was never lost in her husband's shadow."

John Burnham Schwartz

(author): Sentimental Education, by Gustave Flaubert (Penguin). "It's enjoyable to read about alienating urban experiences—particularly when I'm not in the city."

Jennifer Bartlett(artist):

The Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Oxford), and Hard Candy, by Andrew Vachss (Knopf). "Spiritual nightnutres in the late nineteenth century, physical nightmares in the late twentieth century. Or vice versa. . . "