To Do Saturday: I’ll Have Another, Jay

Daniel D'Addario — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 09:00:33 -0400

Surely our literary ardor couldn’t have been sated by last night’s Robert Caro event—and the only reading we thought to bring Out East was a back issue of Vogue and the third Fifty Shades book (we can’t wait to see how it ends!). Tonight, we’ll be in search of the life of the mind, starting with discussing the finer points of Bret Easton Ellis’s Twitter account with onetime lit-world brat Jay McInerney. Mr. McInerney’s middle-aged now, and he’s hosting tonight’s Best Buddies gala alongside better half Anne Hearst McInerney and Anthony Shriver. The evening has a French theme, and having just seen Julie Delpy’s film, that’s enough to sway us in its favor. So we’ll have to miss the East Hampton Library benefit Authors Night, at which lucky guests will get to share intimate dinners with the likes of Nicola Kraus and Emma McLaughlin (The Nanny Diaries), Jené Luciani (The Bra Book) and Kelly Killoren Bensimon (I Can Make You Hot). So much reading to get done before we finally tackle Proust! Jay, where do we start?!

Best Buddies Gala, 156 Little Noyac Path (Water Mill), cocktails and silent auction at 6:30pm, dinner at 7:45pm, live auction at 9pm followed by dancing, tickets and information can be found at bestbuddieshamptonsgala.org; Authors Night, Gardiner Farm, 36 James Lane (East Hampton), reception at 5pm, dinner parties at 8pm, tickets and information can be found at authorsnight.org.

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To Do Saturday: I’ll Have Another, Jay