David Duchovny's first book is a funny fairytale about a cow

For his first book, TV star David Duchovny is not telling behind-the-scenes stories of The X-Files or opening up about the sex scenes in Californication: He’s written a caper about a cow that goes on the lam.

Holy Cow (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) is a fable for adults, full of puns and silly jokes. A turkey is jive. A pig peppers his speech with Yiddish like a grandpa in the Catskills. In fact, the story is set in upstate New York, where the three animal heroes, led by Elsie Bovary, decide to escape their farm to fly to countries where they’ll be safe from being eaten.