NIGHT TABLE READING

GLENN HUMPLIK

sidekick, The Tom Green Show

Options: Essential Concepts & Trading Strategies, edited by the Options Institute, Chicago Board Options Exchange (McGraw-Hill). "I've always wanted to know how options trading works. I've lost $800 on the market since buying the book. I may have to read this book a second time. Not sure if I fully understand all the 'concepts.'"

ROZ CHAST

cartoonist

On the Rez, by Ian Frazier (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). "He writes in an uncliched way about uncliched people."

ZORAK

bandleader, Space Ghost Coast to Coast

How to Win at Strip Poker, by Herbert I. Kavet (Boston America). "Fascinating. Best book ever. All of America should be reading this."

SUSAN DELL

fashion designer

The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence, by Ray Kurzweil (Penguin). "I am extremely intrigued by technology and the speed at which it advances. Our future is going to be driven by knowledge we gain from technology, and so I am passionate about learning how it will continue to impact life in the new millennium."