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Luick, someone pass the president the ClifYs Notes version of Conrad Black'sFranklin Delano Roosevelt (PublicAfTairs); F.D.R. pulled the country out of the Great Depression and through W.W. II while burnishing the reputation of America abroad. Take notes.

Also this month; On break from wrestling with Third World debt, Bono illustrated Sergey Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf( Bloomsbury) while Gavin Friday and the FridaySeezer Ensemble recorded music for the accompanying CD. In Peter Carey's new novel, My Life as a Fake (Knopf), a poetry editor is swept into a Malaysian mystery. Barstool philosopher and rock writer Richard Meltzer gets down and dirty and into the Autumn Rhythm (Da Capo) of aging. The Art of Maurice Sendak: 1980 to the Present (Abrams) includes commentary by Sendak's longtime pal playwright Tony Kushner. In Phil Stern: A Life's Work (Powerhouse), the photographer captures the heroes of W.W. II and the legends of jazz and Hollywood. Gore Vidal takes you into the bedrooms, salons, and minds of Washington, Adams, and Jefferson in Inventing a Nation (Yale). Harper's editor Lewis Lapham hits the bull's-eye of our nation's ridiculousness in 30 Satires (New Press). Tiffany & Co. design director John Loring combines dazzling jewelry and highfashion photography in Tiffany in Fashion (Abrams). Perhaps the most quoted woman in America, Fran Lebowitz returns with Karl Lagerfeld's beautiful editions of her

classics. Metropolitan Life and Social Studies (Editions 7L). In Author Photo (Simon & Schuster), Marion Ettlinger makes a rogues' gallery of writers (including moi) look deep and interesting. New York magazine columnist Michael Wolff rips into the meaty media elite—Tina, Sumner, Michael Eisner, and others—in Autumn of the Moguls (Harper Business). Martin Amis bares his teeth in Yellow Dog (Miramax). Stuart Dybek blesses his fans with a fantastic new novel in stories, I Sailed with Magellan (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). Katherine Shonk debuts with The Red Passport (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), poignant, unforgettable stories of post-Communist Russia. Hang the articles, baby; bring on the 50 Years of Playboy Photographs (Chronicle). Edward St. Aubyn'sSome Hope (Grove) is a trilogy of bitingly funny novels that recall the spirit of Evelyn Waugh. The short stories of Melvin Jules Bukiet make up A Faker's Dozen (Norton). Dale Peck relives his father's violent, impoverished childhood in What We Lost (Houghton Mifflin). In The Dream Life (New Press), super cinema scribe J. Hoberman responds to the political and cultural influences of the 60s. Perhaps the most influential and wonderfully unsettling female photographer of all time, Mary Ellen Mark does a double take in Twins (Aperture). In The Meaning of Everything (Oxford), Simon Winchester offers the definitive history of the Oxford English Dictionary.Lou Reed tapped into the dark soul of "spiritual forefather" Edgar Allan Poe for the lyrics of The Raven (Grove). Dolce & Gabbana out the closets of the celebrities they dress in Hollywood (Assouline). Diane Berger'sRiviera Style (Scriptum Editions) revels in the jaw-dropping aesthetics of the Cote d'Azur. Life According to the Rolling Stones (Chronicle) is a gas, gas, gas. Tobias Wolff sets his first novel in an Old School (Knopf) where prep-school boys are obsessed with gaining a toehold in the firmament of literature. Gawk at 60 years' worth of New Yorkers (Powerhouse) as spied through the eyes of Magnum photographers. In the first installment of 33 1/3 (Continuum), a new series exalting albums of the past 40 years, Love fan Andrew Hultkrans obsesses brilliantly on the rock legends' seminal disc. Forever Changes. For 20 years, Jeff Bridges snapped candid Pictures (Powerhouse) of his fellow actors. Dennis Adler chronicles the 70-year history of the Porsche (Random House). In the Big House for possession, the king of the Merry Pranksters scrawled the notes and illustrations found in Ken Kesey's Jail Journal (Viking). Italian Film Posters (MoMA) highlights some of the most striking movie-poster art ever made. After abandoning poetry at 21 and vanishing into the African desert, Arthur Rimbaud continued to write letters of burning intensity. In a second volume of his complete works, translated and edited by Wyatt Mason, Rimbaud writes, I Promise to Be Good (Random House). At least his hand wasn't on the Bible ...