Over at GalleyCat Emily Gould quotes famous New York literary editor Pat Strachan on the demise of publisher parties:

outside the office, we would costume up and maybe go to Studio 54. And you didn’t talk about work outside the office. You may have talked about books, but you didn’t talk about the office. It was a different time. This was the ’70s and ’80s.

I’m afraid the phrase “costume up” brought to mind visions of normally staid editors getting into Klingon costumes for a night of geekiness, but I suspect that’s not quite what was meant.

Thankfully the SF community still knows how to party. We might not go to discos, but a lot of us still seem to turn out well for award ceremonies and the like.