The Paris Review’s Spring Revel — a k a “the prom for New York intellectuals” — drew a pride of literary lions as well as models, moguls, artists and at least one cop at Cipriani 42nd Street Tuesday. A spy saw Commander of the Sixth Precinct and avid Review reader Brandon Del Pozo “having a long talk with [“The Ask”] author Sam Lipsyte about fiction.” Also spotted were Gay Talese, Zadie Smith, Zoe Heller and Wallace Shawn. Jeffrey Eugenides presented the $10,000 Plimpton Prize for Fiction to Ottessa Moshfegh, and editor Lorin Stein touted that in its 60th year the Review’s “subscriptions went up 20 percent and ad revenues doubled . . . not exactly the trend among print magazines.” At an after-party at a private townhouse, the Avalon Jazz Band wailed till 5 a.m. One fixture who wasn’t there, however, was Salman Rushdie. The literary lothario was holding court across town at Harlow at his own party for the premiere of “Midnight’s Children,” which he adapted from his own novel. We hear Rushdie, who’s also created a Showtime series, “Next People,” wants to continue moving into the movies. Also at the Harlow bash thrown by Web site The Aesthete were Francesco Clemente
and Will Cotton.
Spring comes to ‘Paris’
