Sean Wilsey is the author of a memoir, Oh the Glory of It All, which the New York Times hailed as a “funny-tender-raucous epic of a memoir.” In July he published More Curious, a collection of essays and journalism which includes a profile of the restaurateur Danny Meyer. He is at work on another memoir, I Am in Love, about, among other things, his experiences as an apprentice gondolier in Venice, Italy. For many years he was the editor-at-large for McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, and on the staff of the New Yorker magazine. Wilsey was born in San Francisco, in 1970, and lives in Marfa, Texas. Danny Meyer is the CEO of Union Square Hospitality Group, which includes Union Square Cafe, Gramercy Tavern, Blue Smoke, Jazz Standard, Shake Shack, The Modern, Maialino, Untitled, North End Grill, Union Square Events, and Hospitality Quotient, a learning and consulting business. Danny, his restaurants and chefs have earned an unprecedented 25 James Beard Awards. Danny’s first business book, Setting the Table (HarperCollins, 2006), a New York Times bestseller, examines the power of hospitality in restaurants, business and life. An active national leader in the fight against hunger, Danny has long served on the boards of Share Our Strength and City Harvest.
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