Night-table Reading

Carly Simon (singer): The High Road, by Edna O'Brien (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). "I read it slowly, and listen to each phrase as if it were a sonata, maybe the 'Moonlight' Sonata: lonely, piercing, and brilliant. "

Sylvia Miles (actress): The Hero with a Thousand Faces, by Joseph Campbell (Princeton). "Until we understand about mythology, will we ever be able to understand what becomes a myth today? This book helps answer that question. "

Eric Stoltz (actor): Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe (Bantam). "I'm interested in survival. "

Michael Graves (architect): Etruscan Places, by D. H. Laurence (Olive Press).

"I always find both literature and the architecture richer when I read descriptions of places I love written by authors such as Laurence."