Night-table Reading

A. E. Hotchner (author): The Confidential Agent, by Graham Greene (Penguin). "I'm in my Graham Greene period. The book is written in the guise of a Russian novel, but it's done in an amusing way."

Jellybean Benitez (record producer): The Burden of Proof, by Scott Turow (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). "I find the sequel to Presumed Innocent just as suspenseful."

Lou Gossett Jr. (actor): Breaking Ice: An Anthology of Contemporary AfricanAmerican Fiction, edited by Terry McMillan (Penguin). "It's for my own information and for possible films."

Selwa "Lucky" Roosevelt (author): In Praise of the Stepmother, by Mario Vargas Llosa (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). "I am sure that one day Vargas Llosa will be awarded a Nobel Prize."