The reading on Friday was a huge success--big big thanks to all the audience, to everyone from Random House and Barnes and Noble, and to our amazing readers Jennifer Egan, Carolyn Ferrell, Binnie Kirshenbaum, Dika Lam, Curtis Sittenfeld and Lynne Tillman, and to special surprise guest, contributor Samantha Hunt who popped in for the Q&A. My gratitude is immense, and to my friends as well, one of whom put me in a pair of python Alaias, another who sent a Beastie Boys song as meditative moment, while others passed out clipboards and kept an eye on everything--I am a lucky girl. The women of New York are a planetary force, this is for sure.
Headcounts of the audience ranged between 170 and 200 people! On a Friday night in August! I am so grateful there is such an appetite for substantive literary fiction by women--it's a fabulous thing to behold.
Each reader was wonderful--I had to restrain myself from going on and on about each story but I managed it somehow.
Pictures soon. And details about the best audience question ever at a literary reading to involve Liz Phair.