Weekend Reading
Writing worth reading 21st/22nd September 2025
The Secret to Hosting a Party for the Ages, according to Jackie Kennedy & Wallis Simpson’s Preferred Party Planner Elsa Maxwell by Elsa Maxwell
“.So many parties begin well, only to die, alas, but too soon, owing to the fact that the hostess has taken her own party so seriously that the guests end by taking it seriously, too – and the cloakroom stampeded by those certain “bright young people” in a panic to depart for brighter fields and newer pastures, while the plaintive, tearful voice of the hostess is heard remonstrating thus to the unheeding waves of fleeing guests drowning her in their efforts to escape: “Oh, you can’t go before supper. Won’t you have just one little egg, please…”
A Look Back at Our Letters to our LPs and Capital Exuberance by Michael A. Eisenberg
“ This is creating different dynamics in the venture industry. The headline of this shift is obviously Softbank. Never in history has more capital been deployed in this short amount of time into innovation or hyper-growth tech companies. It would be foolish to try to understand its long-term implications or consequences. However, we can discern some short-term consequences...”
A Recipe for Forgiveness by Helen Longstreth
“When I think about my father, he is standing in the kitchen, gazing into space. On the counter are all the ingredients for dinner, chopped and ready in neat piles. A cookbook is propped on its stand. His white hair is combed neatly to the side, and he’s wearing a brown-and-white checkered shirt tucked into a pair of wrinkled beige chinos. He has on ribbed socks and wears blue slippers, because he hasn’t left the house all day. He turns to me and says, “Hey, sweetheart.” His eyes look big and sad, magnified by his round glasses, but he smiles slightly. Then he sighs, sits down, picks up his book, and waits. Soon my mother will be home.…”
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