Required reading from the week in books.

"Dangerously Funny: The Uncensored Story of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" looks back at the days when a couple of folk-singing brothers had the edgiest show on television. Granted, there were like four channels back then, and they weren't exactly cracking Robert McNamara jokes on "Mayberry, R.F.D."

Also in stores:
-- In "Comeback 2.0: Up Close and Personal," Lance Armstrong tells the story of his 2008 return to professional cycling. We're guessing he probably skims over the whole dating-Kate Hudson thing.
-- Word has it the southern gothic horror romance "Beautiful Creatures" is basically "Twilight," but with witches or something. If that's the case, proceed with caution.
-- "One Model Nation," the graphic-novel debut of Dandy Warhols frontman Courtney Taylor, is a tale of rock and revolution set in 1970s Germany. We're pretty sure that was before heroin was so passé.