At the Wedding Space on East 38th Street last night, Little Brown threw a great party for Ryan D’Agostino in honor of his new book Rich Like Them. It turned into a night for me to run into Esquire staffers, ex-Esquire staffers, and ex-colleagues of mine, who were sometimes one and the same people. Above, my ex-Jungle colleague Ryan (left in both pix) hangs with his ex-Details colleague Bill Shapiro, now of Time Inc., who (I believe) was running Time’s custom publishing unit while I was laboring to produce some pieces for them. (I included the photo on the left because it caught Bill in the seldom-portrayed act of rearranging the atoms on his face.) Below left, the natty Esquire editor-in-chief David Granger (right), about to jet off to Milan for the fashion shows, poses with my former Entertainment Weekly colleague A.J. Jacobs, now of Esquire, an author of the best-selling A Year of Living Biblically (I’m so jealous). A.J. is apparently in the midst of a year of dressing, uh, casually. On the right, Fran Kessler, Esquire‘s Executive Assistant to the Editor-in-Chief (ret.) sidles up Esquire‘s longtime food critic par excellance John Mariani, both former Esquire colleagues of mine. (Sorry for the fuzziness, folks–I really should read the Coolpix manual.)
