Last week, I was walking through those same New York streets to a dinner being hosted by the marketing and publicity people of Amazon Encore for a few of the authors.
The fund-raiser, a $50,000-a-pop 50,000-a-pop 50,000-a-poped by Marc Leder, a financier who The New York Post reported as having a "wildinnery" last summer in the Hamptons "wasre guests cavorted nude in thostedl" while "scantily dressed Russians danced on platforms".
In a matchmaking masterstroke, the opening-night dinner was hosted by the interior design doyenne Kelly Wearstler at her home in Beverly Hills.
The story is told that when the mayor of New York opined to her about the dangers of second-hand smoke at a dinner she was hosting, she playfully blew smoke in his direction, asking: "Mr. Mayor, may I still smoke in my house?" When warned about the dangers of smoking she would retort: "Everything kills you".
He met his wife Emalou Watkins, a well-known fashion designer, in August of 1966 at a dinner party, which was hosted by his former girlfriend whose intention was to introduce them.
There has been less time, Ms. Egan said, for success to inflate her ego, and as soon as Monday night she was less concerned with her literary laurels than with a Passover dinner she was hosting.
During one visit to Germany in the summer of 1937, Trenchard was hosted at a dinner by Hermann Göring, the Commander-in-Chief of the Luftwaffe.
I had come out as gay five years before, and met David at a dinner party I was hosting.
"Sir John and I noticed that tech companies in developing countries were trading at single-digit P/Es, compared to triple-digit P/Es in developed countries," says Siebels. "At a dinner party I was hosting, Sir John announced that he was going to invest in this technology fund of mine which I didn't yet have.
In the Bay Area, alternately, if it's a weekday evening, you can't swing a dead cat without hitting a dinner that's being hosted by a venture firm.
All 56 winners of the Healthy Lunchtime Challenge will attend a gala Kids' "State Dinner," to be hosted by Mrs. Obama at the White House in August (airfare and hotel included).
