******************** STAR DELI ative nonfiction at Richard Stockton College of New Jersey and at the Vermont College Postgraduate Writers Conference. mow• •• ,• musician (Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys), is the author of 16 mysteries and lives on a ranch in the Texas hill country. A tale of suspense, revenge and betray- al filled with high-tension twists, James Siegel's Derailed (Warner Books; 336 pp.; $23.95) tells the story of ad executive Charles Schine, who betrays his loving wife (and ill daugh- ter) by having an affair with a stranger on a train; the author focuses on the pressures that force a basically decent man into desperate maneuvering. Siegel is an award-winning executive creative director at BBDO, the new York City advertising agency. In Jay Cantor's Great Neck (Knopf; 703 pp; $27.95), a collection of baby boomers from Long Island relives the loves and anxieties of their teen years and the social turmoil of the '60s -in the thinly disguised cartoons of one of its members. Cantor, a MacArthur Prize Fellow, is the author of two previous novels, The Death of Che Guevara and Krazy Kat, as well as two books of essays. NONFICTION In a series of humor-filled essays, Mimi Schwartz's Thoughts From a Queen-Sized Bed (University of Nebraska Press; $14.95; 157 pp.; paperback) offers a lively personal account of what it means to be mar- ried for almost 40 years. Schwartz teaches memoir and cre- Genuine Authentic: The Real Life. of Ralph Lauren (HarperCollins; 369 pp.; $25.95), by Michael Gross, zeroes in on America's most successful fash- ion icon, who was born Ralph Lifshitz and brought up in the Jewish enclave of the Bronx in the 1940s and '50s. Gross, author of Model: The Ugly Business of Beautiful Women and a journalist who has written for many publications, uncovers the secrets of Lauren's success and the darker side behind his well-crafted image. Food writer Calvin Trillin shares a travel log of funny culinary adventures as he sets out to discover local special- ties that leave him salivating for a return trip in Feeding a Yen (Random House; 197 pp.; $22.95). A frequent writer for the New Yorker and author of numerous books, Trillin, in one chapter, tries to lure his daugh- ters from California back home to Manhattan using a New York bagel. 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