Despite our best efforts, GalleyCat isn’t able to make it to every book party in town. For instance, last Thursday night, while Sarah and I were covering the National Book Critic Circle awards, Fortune assistant managing editor Cait Murphy celebrated the publication of her new baseball book, Crazy ’08, which postulates that, as the subtitle puts it, “a cast of cranks, rogues, boneheads, and magnates” made 1908 the best year in major league history. Among those who joined Murphy (second from right, top row) at Mickey Mantle’s restaurant for the event were her boss at Fortune, Andy Serwer, Collins Reference/Smithsonian publisher Phil Friedman, and HarperCollins CEO Jane Friedman.*
Meanwhile, downtown at Lolita, the publication party for Kimberly Wilson‘s yoga handbook, Hip Tranquil Chick was well underway. While Wilson (bottom, right) read from the book’s introduction, Mallory from the nearby feminist bookstore Bluestockings hung out on a nearby couch to sell copies.
*Boy, it’s a good thing HC had long since divested itself of that Mickey Mantle novel, no? That would’ve been awkward.