Night-Table Reading

Paul Scott Goodman

composer-lyricist, Bright Lights. Big City

Basquiat, by Phoebe Hoban (Viking). "Gripping in all its awful glory—artist as rock. V roll star, 80s as time warp. A beautifully written book. My next musical?"

Gene Wilder

actor,

A&E's Murder in a Small Town

The Notebooks of Captain Georges; a Novel, by Jean Renoir (Little, Brown). "Jean Renoir, son of the artist Auguste Renoir, was one of the greatest film directors who ever lived. This novel is the most romantic book that I have ever read. "

Frankie Rayder

model

Ham on Rye, by Charles Bukowski (Black Sparrow). "For obvious reasons. "

Kathleen Chalfant

actress. Wit

Age of Iron, by J. SI. Coetzee (Penguin). "A passionate and harrowing book, about love, death, and the spiritual price we pay for complicity in the evils of our time."