On December 14, 2010, Open City editors Thomas Beller and Joanna Yas threw a party at The Magician bar on the Lower East Side of Manhattan to celebrate the holiday season and the launch of the new issue, Open City #30. Poet Alissa Quart and fiction writer Ed Park read their contributions to the issue. A fantastic time was had by all! Photographs by Beowulf Sheehan. (Click on each image for a larger version.)
Welcome Table
Writer Lincoln Michel and writer and Open City Contributing Editor Kimberly King Parsons
Poet Ben Carlton Turner and Lauren Brown
Anderbo Editor Rick Rofihe and former Open City Intern Camille Perri and friend
Writer Ed Park and artist Duncan Hannah
Joanna Yas, Thomas Beller, and Elizabeth Beller
Elizabeth Beller, Joanna Yas, Said Sayrafiezadeh, and Thomas Beller
Elizabeth Beller and Said Sayrafiezadeh
William Morton, Thomas Beller,Paul Morris, Jennifer Lazar, Zachary Lazar
Joanna Yas and Paul Morris
Open City Board Member Wendy Flanagan
Jonathan Wellerstein and friend
Daniel Bergner (C), Alissa Quart (R)
Toby Bryce (L), Peter Harper (R)
Writers Michael Carroll, Edmund White Alissa Quart, and Peter Maass
Edmund White, Alissa Quart, and Peter Maass
Open City Board Member David Goodwillie (L) and friends
Beatrice von Rezzori, Colm Toibin, Edmund White, and friends
Petra West and Jonathan Wellerstein
Our heroic bartenders
Rick Rofihe, Joanna Yas, and Elizabeth Beller
Rick Rofihe
Thomas Beller, Wendy Flanagan, and Open City Art Director Nick Stone
Thomas Beller and Said Sayrafiezadeh
Thomas Beller, Elizabeth Beller, Britta Phillips, and Dean Wareham
Ed Park reading his story in the new issue
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Thomas Beller introducing Alissa Quart
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Alissa Quart
Joanna Yas enjoying the readings
Amanda Fortini and Walter Kirn
Paul Morris (Bomb Magazine), Jennifer Lazar, Open City contributor Zachary Lazar
Artist Karla Wozniak
Beatrice von Rezzori and Colm Toibin
Colm Toibin and Edmund White
William Morton and Thomas Beller
Walter Kirn (L), William Morton (R)
Writers Claire Maclauchlan and Anna Godbersen
Editors Peter Barrett (Columbia), Lee Ellis (The New Yorker), and Karolina Waclawiak (The Believer
Toby Bryce (L), friend (C), Peter Harper (R)
Colm Toibin, Edmund White, and David Goodwillie
Ed Park and Karolina Walclawiak
Siddhartha Lokanandi and Beowulf Sheehan
June Eding and Erika Herran
Jonathan Wellerstein and Alissa Quart
Amanda Fortini, Said Sayrafiezadeh, Elizabeth Beller, Malerie Willens
FSG Editor and former Open City Intern Amanda Schoonmaker and friend
David Goodwillie, Thomas Beller, and friend
The Belle of the Ball!
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