Night-table Reading

David Hockney(artist): Sketches from a Life, by George F. Kennan (Pantheon). "About the earth now, by a wise old man." And Parallel Universes, by Fred Alan Wolf (Simon and Schuster). "About what else there is, by someone less wise."

Rosemary McGrotha(fashion model): The Drawing of the Three, by Stephen King (New American Library). "1 read everything he ivrites—he's easy to read, which is good because 1 travel so much. "

Barbara Goldsmith(social hisatorian): The Vanderbilt Era, by Louis Auchincloss (Scribners). "What a family the Vanderbilts were. As Auchincloss writes, one 'puffed with divine greed.' "

Marc Jacobs (fashion designer): A Woman Named Jackie, by C. David Heymann (Lyle Stuart). "Jackie 0 is my idol. It's so wonderful to know that the U.S.A. hasn't changed since the days of the Kennedy administration."