Last night Friends of the Highline hosted a launch party for their new book ‘Designing the Highline: Gansevoort to 30th Street’. Held underneath the Highline itself it was a stunning, if hot, venue and a great time. Turnout was huge and we are now more excited than ever stroll on top of, instead of underneath, the Highline when it opens later this year. Diller

A little package came the other day with a book inside: 100 Poems to Lift Your Spirits from Grand Central Publishing, Ed. Leslie Pockell.

The book is divided into four groupings of poems: Nature, Nonsense, Spiritual and The Human Connection. The poems in each group reflect on one of those topics: Keats’ “To Autumn” is in Nature; Kipling’s “The Thousandth Man” gets filed under The Human Connection, etc