So continuing our new hobby of Timely Literary Jaunts, SPG and I caught a reading by Sloane Crosley (whom you may remember from last week, or, umm, right below, if this is still on the main blog page). She and Keith Gessen were speaking at Court Books in Brooklyn, in support of their respective first books.
It didn't do much to dispel the theory that we could totally be writing and promoting books like these ourselves as twentysomething editors. But unfounded bitterness aside, it was fun. The whole thing had a fun publishing insider vibe: tiny venue, book publicist/editor authors, young crowd. In fact, the crowd was SO young that the first question came from an actual six-year-old: "How did you make your book?" Good question, kid. She saved us all from having to ask the same thing, even though she was clearly a plant by her Gessen-editor father. Very shrewd!
The next big author event should be a little less intimate and more chaotic: David Sedaris at Union Square. (Yay!)
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