HOT TYPE ELISSA SCHAPPELL

How me to introduce Winkle (Grove), the teddy bear accused of committing terrorist acts in Clifford Chase's absurdist tale of how a society's bumbling war on terror turns good people into barbarians.

Also hammock-worthy: Tom Drury's spooky neo-noir novel. The Driftless Area (Atlantic Monthly Press), proves there is no one better at tangling up the lives of small-tow n midwestern weirdos. Nora Ephron's / Feel Bad About My Neck (Knopf) is a hormonal dispatch from the land of menopause. Barbara Bestor is a torchbearer for Bohemian Modern (ReganBooks) style. The Senator and the Socialite (HarperCollins) is Lawrence Otis Graham's tribute to the Bruce family. America's first black dynasty. True East (Peconic Land Trust) is writerphotographcr Wendy Chamberlin's call to arms to save the ances-_ tral farmlands of Long Island's East End. In Lee Montgomery's bracing. gimlet-eyed memoir. The Things Between Us (Free Press), news of her father's cancer is greeted w'ith a gallon of scotch and a chaser of denial. Party girl turned Free Tibet advocate, novelist Maura Moynihan spins Covergirl (ReganBooks) as "reality fiction." The life of Cinderella (Schwartz & Wade) is given a charming twist by Barbara Ensor. Alexandra Robbins grades the lives of the amped-up, perfection-obsessed kids known as The Overachievers (Hyperion). One half of a freakishly unhappy set of "Siamese" twins yearns to break free in Shelley Jackson's grotesquely funny Half Life (HarperCollins). Jason Langer's Symbolist-inspired photographs are on view in the Vuret (`ar (Nazraeli Press). \es, editor Elizabeth Merrick is female, and the short sto ries she's collected are ritten by women. but marketplace be damned. This Is Vat chiek Lit (Random House). Georg. Black waxes his bamboo f1~ rod in casting a Spell(Random I louse. Snap to it it's David Brown's Guide to the (uud Lilt: U ithout i~'ars, Fears or Bore dotti (Barricade). No~elist Adam Davies. bids Goodhie Lemon (Riverhead). Time .S~mvn iVitigenstein collection ( FeNenes) flaunts thcj `sork of gliuerv shutterbug Princess Marianne Sayn-Wittg.nst.in-Sayn. Living in the land and era of Schwa rzenegger, Amy Wil.ntz conf~sses. I Feel Earthquakes % in Often that: They Happen (Simon & Schuster). Finally. in Ray LeMoine and Jeff Neumann's joint memoir. Babylon hi' Bus, with Donovan Webster (Penguin), the guys give up ped dung ;ANKEES SL~CK T-shirts to take Bagh dad by storm. Her&s a good T-shirt: THE WSR IN IRAQ SU(KS.