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noise in the library; William Norwich attends a star-studded reading at the New York Public Library to unlock the secret of an un-boring book party.
Byline: William Norwich
Some people entertain by the book-there is an endless supply each season from experts who will tell you how to do it-but entertaining with books is a different matter.
Book parties, per se, have gotten a bad rap lately. For the young, these parties are a bore. No music, no dancing, limited opportunities to flirt, not enough food to make a full meal (and save the expense of having to buy and cook your supper), and what, really, are you supposed to wear?
So when Vogue contributing editor Catie Marron sought ideas for how to do something special for the New York Public Library, a few friends got to thinking. Marron, who is one of the heads of the Emergency Campaign for the Library, a voluntary position, specifically wanted to draw attention to this fall's ambitious, and essential, Make Noise for the Library program.
Because of cutbacks and other governmental restrictions, New York City's public libraries are in trouble. As much financial aid as possible for the research and branch libraries needs to be rallied, and so people-all kinds of people from all walks of life-are being asked to do something to "make noise for the library," from writing big checks to simply going on-line to www.nypl.org to donate a book off the library's wish list, which links to Amazon, or make a donation of $17, the cost of one new book.
And this is what happened next: an evening of readings in the library's impressive Trustees Room by Oscar de la Renta, Zac Posen, Sophie Dahl, and Isaac Mizrahi was planned. "I never thought I would ever be reading to an audience at the New York Public Library," de la Renta said, admittedly moved by the experience. Each reader chose excerpts from something they loved. Having first been given the book by his wife, Annette, Oscar read from Henry Beston's The Outermost House: A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod. Posen read Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Kubla Khan." Dahl read a nonfiction story she herself wrote, called "The First Boy I Loved," from an anthology titled Truth or Dare that will be published by Picador this ...
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