Scene @ The New Yorkers Book Party

Sarah Crichton (left) threw a party last night to celebrate the publication of Cathleen Schine‘s The New Yorkers, the wry romantic comedy that’s surely this season’s standout novel for Crichton’s eponymous line at FSG. As Guy Martin talked international security with Adam Gopnik by the snack table, I explained to Schine and René Steinke how I named my first website hoping to get oodles of corporate buyout money, then Elizabeth Strout came by (“another of my favorite novelists,” Crichton enthused), and suddenly I turned to the right and there was Roy Blount, Jr., although I didn’t get a chance to tell him how much I was enjoying the galley of his imminently-arriving essay collection, Long Time Leaving. I did, however, chat with book critic Celia McGee, just before she took off for the party Mayor Bloomberg was throwing for political consultant Doug Schoen to celebrate his new book…