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

By Ron Rosenbaum 10/14/02 12:00am

Goodbye, All That: How Left Idiocies Drove Me to Flee

So I went up to the antiwar demonstration in Central Park this weekend, hoping to hear some persuasive arguments. After a couple of hours there, listening to speeches, reading the hate-America literature, I still don’t know what to think about Iraq-will an attack open a Pandora’s box, or close one?-but I think I know what Read More