New York Diary

Readings, waltzes, cancan girls—well, not girls exactly—and, of course, fireworks: The Paris Review's, 40th-birthday party was a fitting tribute to the magazine's editor, George Plimpton. Clockwise from above: Plimpton gets down while Cy Coleman plays a waltz; writers turned cancan girls James Salter, Peter Maas, Jay Mclnerney, Harry Hurt, Jeff Eugenides, and Tama Janowitz; Tama and her husband, Tim Hunt; artist Larry Rivers peeps out from behind songbird Phoebe Legere; William and Rose Styron observe Lauren Bacall's fascination with Peter Jennings's black-tie and T-shirt ensemble; and Tom Wolfe exits the party while the band plays on.

DEBORAH MITCHELL