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'Sons And Other Flammable Objects' Book Party

29-year-old debut novelist Porochista Khakpour had her book party last night at her friend Sarma Melngailis's raw food restaurant, Pure Food and Wine. It was also Sarma's 35th birthday, so the party contained an oddly wonderful mix of raw food-loving celebs—Carol Alt! Ann ... Curry?—and literary types. Laurel Ptak took the glamourshots.
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2:50 PM on Tue Sep 11 2007
By Emily Gould
4,161 views, 19 comments

Latest by Bug a Martini: Hey, who invited Borat? more »

fashion week

The Unruly Heir Spring '08 Show And Afterparty

Socialgay Kristian Laliberte, who does the PR for fledgling label Unruly Heir, had promised us "more of a presentation than a show, with models walking down the runway to inhabit tableaus vivant, or living painting." What this meant: models, dressed in preppie clothes but carrying props such as a croquet mallet, or a ghetto blaster boombox, or a hobo's hankie-on-stick thing, walked down the runway, posed at the end of it it, and then walked over to the side and pretended to "tag" a painting that was pretending to be a fancy painting by spritzing it lightly with pastel spraypaint. One of them threw a tennis ball into the audience! Another walked with an unlit cigarette in his mouth. It was all very badass, very Port Authority meets Palm Beach. Or: very Dalton meets Once I Saw 'Paris Is Burning.' The inimitable Laurel Ptak documented it for posterity.

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6:10 PM on Mon Sep 10 2007
By Emily Gould
4,228 views, 42 comments

Latest by ambitious: @hamburgerhotdog: Damn. You win. But yeah - that's def the voice that was the subject of that Observer article about the manhattan girls and the uptalking and the pony tails and "Aaaandreeeeew-uh?" more »

party crash

'Blood Is The New Black' Book Party At Death And Co.

Former Travel & Leisure and CondéNet employee Valerie Stivers' first novel takes place a magazine named Tasty, the flagship of a big publishing empire called Oldham, Inc. At Tasty, editors stay up all night and keep the lights off in their offices until midmorning, and they're almost never spotted eating. Also, there's no garlic allowed in the cafeteria! It takes heroine Kate McGraw a while to clue into the fact that they're all literal bloodsucking vampires, but you know what? Who can blame her. Last night, Emily and photographer Laurel Ptak found themselves in the gothy confines of Death and Co., where a group of sallow-skinned yet not undead magazine types had gathered to fete the book.

6:10 PM on Wed Sep 5 2007
By Emily Gould
1,800 views, 28 comments

Latest by raincoaster: @sexbot: not news, though. more »

the gays

Famous Author Celebrates Birthday With Live Nude Boys @ Home Sweet Home

On Friday night, we sent young gay writer-hottie Bennett Madison to cover a party thrown in honor of the birthday of gay eminence Bruce Benderson. We didn't know who that was either, but it turns out that he's very important to the gays! "Bruce Benderson is like Gore Vidal but a little bit [Ed: Um, 21 years!] younger and more downtown. He wrote a bunch of books which no one at the party had read (I asked). Also he went to high school with Camille Paglia. He's an outrageous gay elder statesment. I mean statesman. I'm still drunk," Bennett IM'd us this morning. The detailed accounting of his fun times are after the jump, accompanied by photos by perpetual lone heterosexual in the room Nikola Tamindzic. More more more can be found here. More »

2:50 PM on Mon Aug 27 2007
By Emily Gould
7,106 views, 11 comments

Latest by gaycurmudgeon: "if I'm not getting a BJ, why am I here?" I ask myself that question every time I go to the Eagle. more »

the jews and the blacks

Is 'Duck Duck Wally' L.A.'s 'Devil Wears Prada'?

At last night's book party for "Duck Duck Wally" at G Spa, groups of short white Jewish dudes sat on banquettes bathed in a red light. Whirlpools of nonpotable water glowed eerily from the Jacuzzis. At one point, I ill-advisedly put my hand in one and soon developed a rash. Simon and Schuster, who published the novel, handed out fake gold chains. That the book tells the story of a short white Jewish dude who ghostwrites rhymes on the DL for a rap artist named Oral B only somewhat excused the charged racial implications. Like the novel's protagonist, its author Gabe Rotter is a short Jewish guy himself. Yesterday we got a "tip"—probably just deep cover publicist shill—that though the book was sold as a novel, "The rapper in the book is based on a few of the MAJOR rap stars, who really do have some fat white Jewish dude writing most if not ALL of their rhymes." More »

2:40 PM on Thu Aug 16 2007
By Joshua Stein
2,503 views, 17 comments

Latest by Aughie: Matisyahu blows his shofar while sharing the stories of the wandering Jews. A brilliant lyricist, a prophet AND instrumentally inclined? Now there's the Messiah if I ever could think of one. And this Messiah has his own MySpace profile. more »

lunch with tina

Tina Brown Is The People's Publisher

This afternoon, as Book Expo America begins, Tina Brown and Doubleday hosted a luncheon at MoMA's The Modern to celebrate the release of The Diana Chronicles. In the back room, like dwarves, each of the seven tables came with an adorable author of note. Ian McEwan, Kate Christensen, Jeffrey Toobin, Sebastian Faulks, Valerie Martin and Dan Wallace were the literary set pieces and their books, except Brown's (it's still unpublished, though excerpts will be in next week's Vanity Fair), were liberally distributed throughout. We counted two seersucker suits and more than one pair of Converse. The group could choose between sea bass with coco beans and spring vegetables "au pistou" or beef strip loin with morels, wilted lettuce and yukon gold salad. Tina Brown was fashionably late. More »

2:36 PM on Fri Jun 1 2007
By Joshua Stein
1,670 views, 1 comment

Latest by SarahHeartburn: Please, now, T-shirt nomination. "I'm the only woman who eats at parties." more »

the avant garde

The Wooster Group Benefit: Art By Terrorists

The Wooster Group has always been described as avant garde. This means that either the theatrical garde hasn't changed in 30 years, or the Wooster Group has. Last night at The Box for their annual benefit, Michael Stipe sat on a low sofa and watched Moby, a smaller, uglier him, massacre the 12-bar blues. Mikhail Baryshnikov turned out even cooler in person than we thought, and, as always, John Waters provided some of the only words of wisdom: "Avant garde is a dirty dirty word. I'd never call anything I liked avant garde." Nikola Tamindzic (his own gallery is here) and our own Joshua David Stein got all avant on the rest of them.
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3:50 PM on Tue May 1 2007
By Joshua Stein
962 views, 7 comments

Latest by meh!: I went to the College of Wooster and apparently there is no relation. Meh. more »

party crash

Team Party Crash: 'Culture + Travel' Launch

LTB Media honcho James Truman, his billionairess boss Louise MacBain, Culture + Travel EIC Michael Boodro, and LTB marketing mandarin Lawrence Kaplan. More »

6:00 PM on Wed Sep 27 2006
By Chris Mohney
1,089 views, 2 comments

Latest by Lucia Toledo: Neither can it buy decent architecture. Poor Meier's building wants to trade on sublimity, but crummy details and clumsy room proportions won't let it. more »

party crash

Team Party Crash: Rated X at Luke & Leroy

Ever since the MisShapes party vamoosed, downtown hellmouth Luke & Leroy has been strugglin' a little. Its Saturday-night MisShapes party replacement, Rated X, goes straight for the gonads with enthusiastic amateur nudity. The hipsters are still drawn in droves, MisShapes or no; many probably haven't even noticed the change in party management. Except that they take their clothes off a lot. For money. Unfortunate Gawker videographer Richard Blakeley recorded the hoopla surrounding their most recent (and highly debatable) "Best Body" contest. Top prize went to a twee young male carrying neither body fat nor shame, while the gal Richard brought to the gala went to his roommate after one drink. Drama! Oh yes, did we mention the boobies? They're there. The clip's NSFW, if you haven't figured that out yet.

4:10 PM on Wed Sep 20 2006
By Chris Mohney
528 views, 10 comments

Latest by Flashman: What a nice gesture. more »

party crash

Team Party Crash: Virgin Mobile VMA-holes After-Party

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