Huge thanks to The Mercer Hotel and McNally Jackson Books for hosting a beautiful evening in celebration of Easy to Slip, the unforgettable debut novel from Cal Hoffman.

To everyone who came out to toast the book’s arrival—your warmth, your conversation, and your support meant the world.

Next (and last!) stop on Cal’s East Coast tour: Harvard Book Store on July 31st. Cambridge, we’ll see you soon. Let’s close this chapter in style.

Cal and Victoria at The Mercer Hotel.

Actor Dominic Fumusa and interlocutor Ilana Levine with Cal and Victoria.

Actress/singer Dylan Hundley, Walter Thomas and author Carrie Courogen (author or ‘Miss May Does Not Exist”).

Bestselling author Michael Gross with Cal.