You might say to yourself, if Karen Abbott's Sin in the Second City is a history of the Everleigh Club, the most famous brothel in Chicago, why isn't she having a faboo book party there? Well, she is having a bash there next week, as part of a week-long promotional blitz of the region, but before all that gets underway, Random House and Abbott's good friend Sara Gruen wanted to throw her a party in New York, and the Museum of Sex was more than happy to host. They even lined up local burlesque performer Peekaboo Pointe to entertain the literati with two dance numbers, after which she posed for snaps with Abbott (right) and Random editor Julia Cheiffetz (left). Fellow Chicagoan author Renee Rosen also flew into town for the bash (and promised she'd send me some pictures from her Windy City book party, although she assured me they'd be much tamer than last night's images, like the one behind the fold that's not quite SFW), and local writers Binnie Kirshenbaum and Felicia Sullivan also paid their respects, along with Gruen's new publisher, Cindy Spiegel. And Gawker's Nikola Tamindzic was there to capture it all on film, along with a crew from CBS Sunday Morning.

Peekaboo chills out with Abbott, who has switched back to a traditional wine glass after a champagne slipper toast with Gruen.