
Meryl Streep at Tuesday's benefit.Photo:
It was a good thing, too, because of all the literary types there, only John Guare could name-check a favorite contemporary poet. (He recommended Mark Strand, C.K. Williams, Craig Arnold, and Sarah Manguso.) Said Graydon Carter: "My [favorite] poetry tends to be more than 50 to 100 years old." That night, he read a vintage piece that was a clever dig at his own image: a Dorothy Parker verse about working at Vanity Fair circa 1920, before defecting to The New Yorker. "Our Office: A Hate Song," it was called, and began: "I hate the office — it cuts in on my social life." And continued:
"There is the Boss;
The Great White Chief.
He made us what we are to-day,—
I hope he's satisfied."
—Tim Murphy
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