A spirited (or stressful if you're the author, who was repeatedly pressed to divulge the identity of his anonymous movie honcho main character) question-and-answer session followed Toby Young's reading at Housing Works Used Book Café. The author of The Sound of No Hands Clapping treated audience members to a range of accents with which he enlivened the reading, likely aided by the free wine offered beforehand. Post-reading, the crowd made a break for Puck Fair, across the street, where guests enjoyed more drinks in one of the pub's subterranean private rooms.

At Housing Works Used Book Cafe, July 12, 2006

Photos by Andrea Fischman

mb founder Laurel Touby and The Sound of No Hands Clapping author Toby Young

Young signing books at Housing Works

Guest and Toby Young

Heidi Schmid, Publicis's Matthew Caldecutt and Under Discussion Media publicist Nichelle Stephens

Audience shot

Crowd shot

Audience shot

Young, doing his best impersonation of an American movie honcho

Crowd shot

The author on stage

Young's latest book