About Last Night... The PEN Edmont Benefit

Last night, as an escape from the cold downpour that blanketed our city for most of the day, New York's literary luminaries gathered in the hearth-like glow of the Half King, where the PEN Edmont -- PEN's new committee of younger writers and supporters, named after the New York City hotel where Holden Caulfield stayed in The Catcher in the Rye -- held their holiday benefit for the PEN American Center's literary arts enrichment program for New York City public high school students. Among those in attendance: Paul Auster, Salman Rushdie, Steve and Barbara Isenberg, Georgia Tapert, Siri Hustvedt, Nathaniel Rich, Clairborne Swanson, John Buffalo Mailer, Stephanie LaCava, Garret LaCava, Becka Diamond, and Keegan Singh. The evening also featured musical performance by Sophie Auster and Barry Reynolds, a story by The Perfect Storm author Sebastian Junger, and a poetry reading by Jacqueline Jones LaMon.

Photos from PatrickMcMullan.com