The brightest minds from the film, literary and social circles gathered in an Indian tent erected at Manhattan's House of Waris Tea Room for Playboy's Salon, in commemoration of a recent translation by Lydia Davis of Flaubert's Madame Bovery, which is featured in September's issue of Playboy.

Great scribes at the soiree last week included Jonathan Ames, Jay McInerney, Sloane Crosley, Hari Kunzru, James Sanders, Paul Haggis and Playboy's executive literary editor, Amy Grace Loyd.