By Faye Penn 5/09 12:17pm

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Cindy Adams makes the rounds at the Pen Literary Gala. (Photo: Beowulf Sheehan/PEN American Center)

Night at the Museum: Cindy Adams Works a Room

INT. MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY — EVENING CINDY ADAMS is standing with a friend among a crowd of hundreds, surveying the black-tie attendees at the PEN Literary Gala, who include Philip Roth, Zadie Smith, Jay McInerney, Jennifer Egan, Candace Bushnell, Joanna Coles and Peter Godwin.

Ms. Adams is wearing a splashy, graphic print jacket and a bun atop her head. A stream of partygoers greet her. She is approached by the Transom and asked how to work a room. Read More

By Drew Grant 12/13/12 6:08pm

Celebrities give back

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Learn From the Best During a One-on-One Meeting With Hollywood Hit-Maker Harvey Weinstein in NYC or L.A.

Chat with Weinstein, Swim With Lochte, or Skype With Egan: The 10 Best Celebrity Holiday Auctions

If you still haven’t picked out the perfect stocking stuffer for the guy (or gal!) who has everything, mosey over to CharityBuzz.com, an auction site that is currently offering a holiday-themed assortment of goodies. Its celebrity auctions are particularly spectacular. Who wouldn’t want David Lynch reading their screenplay, or Jennifer Egan to Skype into their book club? (Don’t even get us started on the two-hour date with Academy Award nominee James Cromwell.) Read More

By Kat Stoeffel 5/24/12 10:30am

The Future

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The New Yorker Will Serialize Jennifer Egan’s Short Story on Twitter, Starting Tonight

What are you doing from 8-9 p.m. tonight, and for the next nine nights after that?

Tweeting about the shows you’re watching on your ex-boyfriend’s mom’s HBO Go account? Staring at your iPhone until you know shows up at the party? Catching up on your Sexstrology?

Good! Then you’ll be in just the place to catch “Black Box,” Jennifer Egan‘s latest New Yorker story, which will be serialized on Twitter, starting tonight. Read More

8/18/10 3:00am

Super Hot Sexy Love Stories

Out of nowhere in Rick Moody’s new novel The Four Fingers of Death, there is a gay sex scene involving two astronauts flying on a rocket ship to Mars. “There was a sharp stabbing sensation, sort of how I imagine it must feel to find your innards impaled on a pike,” Mr. Moody Read More

By Molly Fischer 7/07/10 1:08am

Program

Program: What We Love This Week (July 7-July 12)

Movies

This week, “Movies With a View” screens Annie Hall in Brooklyn Bridge Park. There will also be a DJ set, which means: DIANE KEATON DANCE PARTY. Assuming that we’re also allowed to drink white wine, this is basically our ideal night out (Thursday, July 8, 6 p.m. to 11 p.m.). And this is Read More