Graydon Carter’s Beatrice Inn has yet to open, but behind those meticulously brown-paper-covered windows, Scott Rudin hosted a bash for Pulitzer Prize-winner Michael Chabon Tuesday night. Rudin has already optioned Chabon’s latest book “Telegraph Avenue” — about black and Jewish owners of a Bay Area record shop — for a Hollywood film. “Every intellectual from Brooklyn came,” said a spy of the Beatrice bash, which the producer threw primarily for friends of Chabon and his wife, Ayelet Waldman. “It was all writers who knew each other. Scott wanted to throw the party as a personal celebration for Michael.” Spotted were authors Richard Price, Zadie Smith and John Burnham Schwartz as well as Rudin power pal Barry Diller. Waldman tweeted the next morning under the category “#sloppydrunk,” “Me inviting literally entire party to join me at Spa Castle,” followed by, “Um. Yeah. 150 literary luminaries. And me and my big mouth.” Chabon’s book is expected to debut at No. 5 on the New York Times best-seller list this week.
Scott Rudin throws bash for new Michael Chabon book ‘Telegraph Avenue’
