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...international sensation 30 years ago, flying out of bookstores; 18 million copies are in print worldwide. Now her daughter (by her ex-husband, writer Jonathan Fast) is giving her a run for her money. In The Sex Doctors in the Basement: True Stories from a Semi-Celebrity Childhood (Villard; 192 pages), novelist Molly Jong-Fast, 26, tells of growing up Jong and Fast. TIME sat down for a chat with mother and daughter...
Americans are taking the notion of dogs' being man's best friend quite literally. In Jon Katz's fine book The New Work of Dogs (Villard), the author explores how in our increasingly fragmented and disconnected society, dogs are often treated as family members and human surrogates. A growing number of people, according to Katz, say they get more support from their dogs than their spouses or parents. The author zooms in on 12 dog-human relationships in Montclair, N.J., a prosperous community with a large canine population. In Montclair, pet-human bonds take on a variety of forms...
...Most listeners, though, didn't know that the countrified "The Three Bells" ("Les trois cloches" by Jean Villard) or the Paul Anka "All of a Sudden My Heart Sings" (by Jean-Marie Blanvillain and Laurent Henri Herpin) or "Mack the Knife" (which had five versions in the Top 20 from 1956 to 1959, including Bobby Darin's #1) had come to Tin Pan Alley through Ellis Island. This was music they heard, liked and bought. I also doubt that the decade's record producers were trying to broaden the masses' musical palette; they probably figured that, since catchy tunes were...
Indeed, Smigel is back in risky territory. In the raunchy but not-altogether-awful Adam Sandler movie Little Nicky, he is the voice of the scene-stealing talking bulldog. A new comic book-style novel, X-Presidents (Villard; $12.95), co-written by Smigel, based on a cartoon about four of our former Commanders in Chief endowed with radioactive superpowers that he created for SNL, hit bookstores in October. Meanwhile, TV Funhouse, a parody of an afternoon children's program, premieres Dec. 6 on Comedy Central. TV Funhouse, which merges cartoons with talking-animal puppets, tracks the adventures of the Anipals...
RUNNER-UP: Noodles: The New Way by Sri Owen (Villard; $24.95) Grab your chopsticks! Egg noodles, rice noodles and soba noodles never looked as delicious as they do here. Take a twirl...