… is reading about a BAD party you missed. Thank you, James Marcus. Thank you, Atlantic, for not sending me an invite.
Picture this: as you enter the auditorium at NYU’s Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, the first thing you see is 150 or so people on the stage. They’re having a cocktail party. You, the audience, are not.
My old high school is having an online party, webcasting the Exeter-Andover football game this Saturday. Alum John Irving will probably be too busy to tune in — he barely had time to type a paragraph on his latest project for the NBCC.
LAist is keeping up with the writers’ strike: photos of puppies, kids, and actor Jerry O’Connell.
Also in LA, a sad party/commemoration: on November 19, Laila Lalami, Chris Abani and more read for Mutanabbi Street, the street of booksellers in Baghdad, which was bombed in March (30 people died and 100 were injured). It’s part of the Aloud series at the LA Public Library.
