I used to have Mojo in the bathroom but I can't afford it anymore..... And I never get through all the Time Out New Yorks in there as it is. (I like torturing myself with all the listings of shows I'm missing.) I'm partway through John Kruth's Rahsaan Roland Kirk book, which has lots of interesting interviews with musicians but might have been organized better. I just started Mahfouz's "Palace Walk," loved "The Beginning and the End" which I picked up after someone here recommended "Akhenaten," which the library didn't have. My thanks to whoever mentioned Mahfouz in the first place, his characters are so real and engrossing. I'm hoping the library will get the reissue of "Terrible Thunder," a book on the Howard Johnson fire/shootout here in New Orleans a couple decades ago. A friend said it's the first book he ever read in one sitting -- of course, he does know some of the folks who were involved, but I understand it is a pretty interesting look at the racial and social politics of the time as well as a gripping account of events. Parry