*Top,* Sean McDonald, Sloane Crosley, and Griffin Dunne; *above,* Salman Rushdie and Rachel Eliza Griffiths.

*Top,* Elisa Lipsky-Karasz, Alexandra Wolfe, and Drew Schiff; *above,* Sarah Cristobal.

*Top,* Crosley, Mitzi Angel, and McDonald; *above,* Leanne Shapton.

*Top,* Sara Vilkomerson; *above,* Kaitlin Phillips.

*Top,* Graydon Carter and Crosley; *above,* Susan Minot and Dunne.

*Top,* Patrick Hoffman and Reyhan Harmanci; *above,* Michael Grynbaum.

*Top,* Shawn McCreesh and Carl Swanson; *above,* Thessaly La Force.

*Top,* Crosley and Aimée Bell; *above,* Will O’Connor, David Haskell, and Harrison Vail.

*Top,* Sandi Mendelson and Karah Preiss; *above,* Audrey Gelman.

*Top,* Christopher Bollen and O’Connor; *above,* Crosley and Alex Edelman.

A Night Celebrating Sloane Crosley

Salman Rushdie, Griffin Dunne, Naomi Fry, Gary Shteyngart, and others gathered at the Waverly Inn in celebration of the writer’s new memoir

By Jack Sullivan

Photographs by Daniel Paik

Evidently the literary set is not daunted by forecasts of a blizzard. It was supposed to snow up to 10 inches in Manhattan on Tuesday, which might have deterred partygoers from showing up to AIR MAIL and MCD x FSG’s celebration of Sloane Crosley’s forthcoming memoir, Grief Is for People. Yet the flurries abated by midafternoon, and no amount of slush or nippy weather could stand in the way of the attendees who streamed into the Waverly Inn come evening time.

AIR MAIL Co-Editors Graydon Carter and Alessandra Stanley held court by the entrance, while Salman Rushdie and his wife, the novelist Rachel Eliza Griffiths, occupied a cocktail table across the room from Griffin Dunne and the film producer Laura Bickford.