When I showed up at the still-incomplete downtown W Hotel and condo tower for Emily Giffin‘s book party last night, she was still up at the Borders in Columbus Circle, making sure she spoke to all the fans (including the employees) who came out for the first reading on the tour for her new book, Love the One You’re With, so I chatted with Laura Dave and Brenda Janowitz until Giffin arrived—although she was soon pressed into signing more copies of the book in a quiet corner of the party space.
Dave is about to start her own tour, for The Divorce Party, next Monday night at the Lincoln Center B&N, while mediabistro.com instructor Brenda Janowitz‘s second novel, Jack with a Twist, comes out next month (look for a mediabistro.com party announcement soon!). I also ran into Tracy Quan, who filled me in on a party the Drug Policy Alliance is throwing next week to mark the one-year anniversary of the legalization of absinthe, which she’s co-hosting with, among other people, 2012 prophet Daniel Pinchbeck.