Breakfast at Tiffany's, Bombing at Barney's ... Akimbo

Let's talk about ... reading. It's summer, kids, and with booty shorts and Soon Yi's visa renewal comes the Armed and Akimbo book club! First up is a super VIP event tonight for the thrilling new novel American Subversive, which in the span of three caffeine pills takes on the "new" Manhattan scene (do you know where Weehawken is?), the "new" media, domestic terrorism, fabulous department stores and most importantly trashy Meatpacking whores.
The book also reveals bloggers for who we REALLY are: intelligent, inquisitive, enterprising, courageous, unique, talented ... wait where am I?

McNally Jackson

52 Prince St.
7:00 pm

Why read it, when there are oodles of Vogues, Ws, Outs, Interviews, GQs and Butts that demand taloned page-throughs? Well, first and possibly most important, us AnA girls are a tad attracted to the hot author.

David Goodwillie: I'll run spellcheck on YOUR underground fringe group!

Anywho, see you tonight!

Summer Reading Akimbo // Cosmo

Helen Gurley Brown reigned as Editor-in-Chief at Cosmopolitan Magazine for over 30 years and is the subject of a new biography called "Bad Girls Go Everywhere," sure to be this summer's biggest beach reading. The New Yorker discussed the book here. Here is the fabulous HGB rocking a demure hive and jungle print in the 60s:

How fabulous is she: "If you're not a sex subject, you're in trouble." AnA enjoys Cosmo and all of the woman-on-top advice so thanks to Ms. Brown for that!