Haj To Staten Island: Literary World Mecca
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Just off the Staten Island ferry—which happens to be free and sells beer—in a Staten Island castle on top of the hill, Penguin's Molly Barton, Lisa Weinert Consulting's Lisa, and The New Yorker's John McElwee hosted a garden party for New York's literari, native Staten Islanders, and kids. There was a fire pit, a fish pond, mint juleps, fiddles, vodka infused watermelon (that ended up on the kiddie table) and lots of kids (complaining about how bad the watermelon was).
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