Judith Thurman and Peter Canby of The New Yorker fame talk about what they like to read at bedtime, covering ground from the Mayan apocalypse to French dictionaries to Susan Sontag. Both writer-editors, often inundated with new publications looking for a blurb, speak to how they read bedtime books purely for pleasure and what works best late in the evening – texts on paper, on Kindle, and new or old.
