Vanities

Night-table Reading

February 1994
Vanities
Night-table Reading
February 1994

Night-table Reading

Wim Wenders (director): The Art of Hunger, by Paul Auster (Penguin). "This is a collection of around 20 essays, each of them sharp and intelligent and beautifully written. "

Julia Louis-Dreyfvs (actress): Let Evening Come, by Jane Kenyon (Gray wolf). "This is a book of poems which reverberate in the mind. They are complex but easy to become familiar with. "

Vivienne Westwood (fashion designer): Romantic Agony, by Mario Praz (Oxford). "It is a monograph of the Romantic literature of the 19th century from the aspect of erotic sensibility."