Home
COOL TITLE I'm Dysfunctional, You're Dysfunctional (Addison-Wesley), a deft skewering of the self-help movement from Wendy Kaminer. COOL SALES GIMMICK The essay contest sponsored by Poseidon Press, publishers of The First Wives Club: Describe, in 1,000 words or less, what a cad your ex-husband is. (The winner got a $1,500 Cartier gift certificate.)
COOL CURMUDGEON Patrick O'Neil, the disagreeably charming antihero of Stephen McCauley's novel The Easy Way Out (Simon & Schuster).
COOLEST IDEA IN THIS ELECTION YEAR The Women's 1992 Voting Guide (Earthworks Press). An inspired book showing who stands where.
COOL KIDS' BOOK Up North at the Cabin (Lothrop). Evocative text (by Marsha Wilson Chall) and beautiful paintings (by Steve Johnson) capture the timeless pleasures of a summer at the lake.
COOL CHARACTER Barrett Rossignol, the oh-so-slippery seducer in Diana Hammond's The Impersonator (Doubleday).
