Tina's Hot Pick:
The Viewers of Topic [A]
          "It has been a ball fighting our little guerilla war
          for smart conversation."
               -- Tina Brown

Toure's Hot Pick:
"The Lottery" in Collected Fictions
by Jorge Luis Borges (Penguin Books)
          "My favorite short story of all time."
               -- Toure (CNN Pop Culture Correspondent)

Nancy Collins's Hot Pick:
Devils & Dust
by Bruce Springsteen (Sony Music)
          "He's really a writer who happens to sing."
                -- Nancy Collins (Contributing Editor, Harper's Bazaar)

Jessi Klein's Hot Pick:
Sideways (Available on DVD from Fox Home Entertainment)
          "The DVD commentary is almost better than the movie."
               -- Jessi Klein (Commentator, VH1's Best Week Ever)

Helen Hunt's Hot Pick:
Serpent Girl: A Novel
by Matthew Carnahan (Villard Books)
          "My boyfriend's first novel."
               -- Helen Hunt (Actress, Empire Falls)

Philip Seymour Hoffman's Hot Pick:
The Sportswriter
by Richard Ford (Random House)
          "I've never read a book so on the money about what it's like
          to live inside the head of a male."
               -- Philip Seymour Hoffman (Actor, Empire Falls)