By Peter Davis 4/04 9:00am

The Eight-Day Week

Nicole Hanley Mellon and Matthew Mellon.

To Do Thursday: Youth Culture

Fans of the pre-grunge Seattle indie band Young Fresh Fellows will rejoice tonight alongside the junior-society set at the annual Young Fellows black-tie ball, which is themed “Dance of Time” and sponsored by Donna Karan. The highbrow-yet-beautiful steering committee includes author Lesley M.M. Blume, Lydia Fenet and Sara Gilbane Sullivan, along with a benefit committee Read More

By Emily Witt 7/14/11 4:52pm

Book Parties

The artist David Foote, right, with models at the St. Regis.

The Origin of the (Book as a) Work of Art

Midway through a party for Thornwillow Press at the St. Regis Hotel last night, a book publicist brought up Heidegger. “It’s all about the thinginess of the thing,” he said gloomily, sipping champagne, after a discussion about why Montblanc pens was sponsoring a book party. His point was that nice pens, small letterpress books, the Read More