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‘So You All Got the Email …’


At the launch for Susan Morrison’s Lorne after a reply-all blizzard.

Technically, the group of 100 or so was at McNally Jackson Books Seaport on this snowy Thursday to hear Emily Nussbaum interview her New Yorker colleague Susan Morrison about her Lorne Michaels biography. Fey and Jost weren’t part of the McNally crowd, which included a sprinkling of SNL alumni among a more serious bunch probably best characterized by its collective mmm- ing at a Henry James reference. Morrison wouldn’t elaborate on the email mess, saying only, “I have more events coming up, and I’m gonna make sure that this gets debugged before we hit send,” but Nussbaum said she’d never think to mute it: “There is nothing I love more than digital chaos.” The writer Eric Alterman, who had griped in the thread about not receiving a galley, was among the attendees and still without a book.

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