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!