As appropriate for a sex app party, there was a surprise Woody.
Woody Allen was once the go-to guy on the nightlife scene. But since #MeToo brought unproven allegations against him back into the spotlight, the director has largely disappeared from cocktail parties.
So on Tuesday night, at a party at literary giant Daphne Merkin’s house on the Upper East Side, we found the “Manhattan” man and his wife, Soon-Yi Previn, among the pigs wrapped in a blanket. It was a shock.
Allen, who was chatting cheerfully with other guests, is an old friend of Mirkin’s and famously wrote a controversial profile of Previn for New York Magazine in 2018.
The party was to celebrate the launch of a heavyweight literary magazine created by Field, a sex app that bills itself as “a dating app for the curious.” The app’s search settings provide members with the expected sexual preferences, including “MF”, “FF”, “MM”, “MF”, as well as “FFM”, “MMF”, “MFM”, etc. Masu. In addition to the ambitious “MFMF,” “MMMM,” and of course “FFFF,” there’s “See,” and, perhaps counterintuitively, “Single.”
The first issue of AFM, which stands for “AF**king Magazine” or “A Feeld Magazine,” featured work from big-name authors such as Jazmyn Hughes, Alison P. Davis, and Susannah Moore, author of “In the Cut.” I am. Edited by the equally great Haley Mrotek and Maria Dimitrova.
Allen didn’t stick around for long – he’s 88, after all – but the party was filled with readings by James Ivory and Tony Turatimut, who were inspired by the theme of the first issue, the pursuit of happiness. He quipped that he could only write about. I’m a novelist. ” Mirkin himself delivered an intriguing reading, riffing on Marlon Brando and Marilyn Monroe.
The event was planned by PR star Caitlin Phillips.
Also in attendance were Candace Bushnell, Molly John Fast, Paula Froehlich, David Searle, Emma Klein, and Field CEO Ana Kirova.
The biennial is available now on newsstands and at ReadAFM.com for $24.
