The Best Accessories on the New Gossip Girl Aren't the It Bags — They're the It Books

If you're already adding some of these books to your to-be-read pile, let me say that as a Babitz fan, my favorite of hers remains Sex and Rage ($16). It was the first Babitz novel I read. And like everything from her one-of-a-kind brain, it's escapist and cosmopolitan, witty and snide, somewhat trashy and certainly glamorous. Which, now that I think of it, is exactly what I expect from the new Gossip Girl.