The evening opened (after cocktails), as guests were taking their seats at table with the Revel Girls Can Can. This was George Plimpton’s idea (Plimpton died of a heart attack ten years ago after organizing the first Revel and just before it was held.)
The tables were hosted by more than forty writers including John Guare, Richard Ford, Hilton Als, Toni Bentley, Wallace Shawn, Gary Shteyngart, Zadie Smtih, Gay Talese, Hannah Pakula, Richard Price, Darryl Pinckney, Lewis Lapham, Deborah Eisenberg, Lorraine Adams, Claire Messud, Nathaniel Rich, James Salter and more than a score of individuals just as unlike them.
The Paris Review, a quarterly literary magazine celebrating its 60th year, was the creation of Harold Humes, Peter Matthiessen and George Plimpton, established in Paris in 1953. Its Founding Publisher is Sadruddin Aga Khan. Their legacy, under the editorship of Lorin Stein and publisher Antonio Weiss, continues to prosper.
Last night was a kind of convocation underlining the value of the written word. It was a beautiful night, in New York, outside and in.
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