Last Call at Elaine’s Creates a Rush

It’s hard to tell from this picture, but that’s an empty display window at the Upper East Side’s Corner Bookstore, after every single copy of Last Call at Elaine’s, a memoir by former bartender Brian McDonald, in the store got snapped up at last Thursday night’s reading—along with several from the Barnes & Noble seven blocks away. Christine Harrington emails to tell us that Corner Bookstore management describes the evening as the most successful signing in the shop’s history, with more than 100 copies of McDonald’s book sold.

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