By Ann Gerhart and Annie Groer

Wednesday, March 25, 1998; Page D03

Leaving No Tome Unturned

Is independent counsel Ken Starr interested in Monica Lewinsky's taste in literature?

On Monday, Kramerbooks & Afterwords was ordered to turn over records of Lewinsky's purchases at the Dupont Circle bookstore before she became a household name in January.

"We are cooperating," said Carol O'Riordan, Kramerbooks' attorney. "We are trying to work out . . . a response that is not unduly burdensome to a small company."

One of several books Lewinsky bought there is "Vox," Nicholson Baker's 1992 novel of yuppie phone sex between a man in a Western city and a woman in the East.

Word of the subpoena outraged Lewinsky's lawyer, William Ginsburg, who offered up a few literary references of his own. "We have now gone from invasion of the right of privacy to 'Fahrenheit 451,' " he told The Post's Peter Baker. "This is 'Animal Farm.' This is 'Brave New World.' My God, they've got the government in our bathroom."

Starr's spokeswoman Deborah Gershman would not comment.

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