Last night n+1 and Harper Perennial celebrated the release of Diary of a Very Bad Year: Confessions of an Anonymous Hedge Fund Manager. The book compiles Keith Gessen’s interviews with a financial man of mystery, whose work The Observer has also published.
We spent most of the party standing over the Read More
Sloane Crosley celebrated her second book–How Did You Get This Number, from Riverhead–with a party last night at the Spotted Pig.
She wore a fetching strapless dress, carried a flashdrive of music from a friend (which she threatened to use as a switchblade, or maybe a Taser), and urged guests to try the deviled eggs Read More
Lydia Davis, David Means, and flavored vodka have far too many fans to fit on the second floor of the Russian Samovar. This was the lesson of last night’s Farrar, Straus, and Giroux reading.
The show was scheduled to start at 7; by 7:05, Samovar proprietor Roman Kaplan had placed a velvet rope at the Read More
“Writing as a form of suffering is no longer possible when you publish yourself,” Garrison Keillor told the audience at the Authors’ Guild Gala last night at Tribeca Roof. “When you become your own publicist, you have to interview yourself.”
Mr. Keillor riffed on the gloom accompanying the heralded death of print and the deprofessionalization Read More
Last night was the PEN America Gala, where, beneath the Natural History Museum’s dangling whale, Margaret Atwood received the organization’s Literary Service Award.
Said Atwood as she accepted the honor, “I don’t deserve this but if we all got what we deserved we would all be boiling in oil.”
Granta celebrated its Sex issue with a party Thursday night at “erotic luxury” shop Coco de Mer.
There were leather muzzles and manifold dildos and Stella McCartney lingerie and scantily-clad part-time models distributing postcards. The latest issue of the magazine was displayed next to a penis candle. Kelly Clarkson played, and guests mostly did not Read More
Clouds of volcanic ash prevented much of New York’s publishing world from traveling to the London Book Fair this week, but the scouting division of Sanford J. Greenburger Associates was determined to make the best of things.
While they didn’t have boarding passes, they did have party supplies: a small roof, bunker-style camaraderie, and too Read More
Jay McInerney’s Wall Street Journal wine column has made its debut! What does the author (“one of the country’s best-known contemporary fiction writers” and “one of the freshest voices in the wine-writing field”) have to say about 1990 Dom Pérignon Oenoteque Rosé?
It really is spectacular, one of the greatest rosés I’ve ever Read More
