Joining in recent efforts to encourage book purchases during this recession-tinted holiday season, FishbowlNY editor Glynnis MacNicol has collected gift ideas from media folks around the world.

Her Huffington Post list included recommendations from Ana Marie Cox, Saturday Night Live member Fred Armisen, Arianna Huffington, Collins publisher Steve Ross, and Salman Rushdie. At least one GalleyCat editor hasn't finished gift shopping yet. If your bookstore, publishing house, or website has similar recommendations from writers, post a link in the comments section--we need all the help we can get.

From Rushdie: "Paintings in Proust by Eric Karpeles gathers together the many, many pictures to whom Proust and his characters refer during his great novel-cycle In Search of Lost Time, paintings by Durer, Rembrandt, Botticelli, the Impressionists, and indeed almost every major European artist of the past six hundred years, and sets these masterpieces alongside the Proustian texts in which they occur."