Shashi on the Not-to-Loose

Nibbled Indian delicacies last night at a dinner honoring U.N. communication director Shashi Tharoor for his newest tome, “Bookless in Baghdad.” He read, mainly from the title essay, telling us of the Iraqi capital’s “book souk,” a bazaar where Tharoor saw people selling their book collections for the equivalent of pennies in order to survive.

There weren’t too many other media types among the two-dozen or so guests, at the East Village digs of D.C. lobbyist and fundraiser Martin Davis, who brought us together to benefit the PEN writers’ group.

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