Night-Table Reading

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Abigail Lane

artist

The Unconsoled, by Kazuo Ishiguro (Vintage).

"It's hard to describe the strange labyrinth time is allowed to meander within its story. I felt like I was rushing towards madness when reading it— willingly at that. "

Lou Reed

musician

Nonconformity: Writing on Writing,

by Nelson Algren (Seven Stories Press). "The original. Tough talk, from a tough writer. Probably because Chicago is still the Second City."

David Koepp

writer-director.

Stir of Echoes

Sir Vidia's Shadow, by Paul Theroux (Houghton Mifflin). "I love Theroux 's more personal nonfiction because he 's relentlessly confessional. Not afraid to make himself look bad. if it's the truth."

James Redford

producer,

The Kindness of Strangers on HBO

Birdsong,

by Sebastian Faulks (Vintage).

"A brilliant examination of the human capacity for endurance

and survival."