Tuesday evening was devoted to toasting a trio of magazine editors turned novelists—and their newly released books—with suitably chic celebrations uptown and downtown.

At Temple Bar, guests wrapped in cashmere sweaters and tailored blazers gathered for Caroline Palmer’s launch of Workhorse . The soirée channeled early-aughts glamour, complete with an era-appropriate playlist and glittering bowls of cigarettes and matches. The scene could have been plucked straight from the pages of Palmer’s debut novel, which follows Clo, a determined editorial assistant climbing the ranks of a prestigious fashion magazine in 2001 New York.

Lacking family connections or insider access, Clo quickly earns the “workhorse” moniker among her more privileged “showhorse” peers. “We all see these women chara

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