NIGHT-TABLE READING

Who reads what between the sheets

SWOOSIE KURTZ (actress):Dancing for Balanchine,by Merrill Ashley (E. P. Dutton). "Because it's what I always wanted to do.''Talking to Myself,by Studs Terkel (Pantheon). "I think he is one of the wisest souls we have around.''

JONATHAN DEMME (director):Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo,by Hayden Herrera (Harper & Row). "Her life was every bit as amazing as her extraordinary paintings and therefore induces top-notch dream material while sleeping.''

CAROL CHANNING (actress):The Journals of Thornton Wilder, 19391961,edited by Donald Gallup (Yale). "This book is remarkable. He keeps me up night after night!"

RALPH ELLISON (writer):The Structure of Scientific Revolutions,by Thomas Kuhn (University of Chicago). "Tells of ways—not always logical— that scientists have solved the problems facing them.''