Nighttable Reading

Kennedy (MTV V.J.): Cosmos, by Carl Sagan (Ballantine). "I immediately liked it because (a) I'm a big nonfiction buff (b) physics is the only subject 1 did well in, (c) there is so much stuff in the universe, your problems become so minute. "

George Plimpton (editor, The Paris Review); New York Days, by 'Willie Morris (Little, Brown). "It's always nice to read a book by an old friend. He treats me nicely in it, which is also nice. It's a bloody good book about the politics of publishing at Harper's. "

Arie L. Kopelman (president, Chanel): Truman, by David McCullough (Simon & Schuster). "Reading this biography is like taking the world's most exciting history course—but without having to take an exam!"