Note to self: always make sure the battery in the digital camera is charged before you head into Manhattan for an evening of book parties. Because I didn't take that simple step, I don't have any pictures to show you from the party that The Ha-Ha author Dave King and friends threw for journalist Cynthia Carr to celebrate the publication of Our Town, an investigation into a lynching that took place 75 years ago in her Indiana hometown and her grandfather's role in the tragic event. Many of Carr's colleagues from the Village Voice were on hand, and so I got to say a brief hello to Guggenheim winner Lynne Tillman and almost certainly bumped into Vivian Gornick coming out of the elevator as I was dashing off to my next engagement...

...but, of course, I don't have any pictures of Wendy Salinger reading from her memoir, Listen, at the Union Square offices of Teachers & Writers Collaborative, either. Too bad: Not only did Salinger's reading go well, but the TWC is about to move out of that fabluous space and into new midtown digs. Salinger is a former TWC artist-in-residence, now serving as the literary outreach director for the 92nd Street Y, and so many of her former and current 92Y colleagues came by to cheer her on, including novelist Miranda Beverly-Whittemore.