COMING SUNDAY:

Hot rodding, the teen outlaw sport, has become grown-up Americana . . . Amazon.com will put your literary psyche in its data base and spit out a short list of the new books you’re sure to love . . . In “Out and About,” Merv Griffin details his plans to evoke the fabulous nightspots of the past at the new, collapsible Coconut Club at his Beverly Hills Hotel. These stories and more in Sunday Brunch.