Longtime GalleyCat readers will recognize Amanda ReCupido as this blog’s roving correspondent, who’s sent in field reports (and photographs) from some of the parties and lectures that I (now we) weren’t able to attend, like last month’s launch party for Sex and Sensibility, a collection of cartoons by women associated with The New Yorker, edited by Liza Donnelly.
Amanda recently took on a new gig with the Breakup Girl website, blogging about relationship-themed news stories, and in one of her first posts, she revisits Donnelly and the gang for an evening at the Algonquin Hotel‘s library room, where “much of the group’s discussion actually centered on whether or not men and women find different things funny, and why that might be.” On her own blog, Donnelly debunks the breathless Page Six write-up, and also posts the picture above, where she’s joined by Carolita Johnson, Marisa Acocella Marchetto, Victoria Roberts, and Barbara Smaller.
Amanda also reports that Donnelly and her husband, cartoonist Michael Maslin, are collaborating on a book about marriage. That should prove entertaining…