A Night Celebrating Cazzie David

Seth Meyers, Lisa Taddeo, Susie Essman, Kareem Rahma, and others gathered at the AIR MAIL Newsstand in the West Village to fête the writer’s new essay collection By Carolina de Armas This week, I had occasion to recall the immortal lines spoken by Dame Julie Andrews in The Princess Diaries (which is about as far as my film references go): “A queen is never late. Everyone else is simply early.” And so it went on Tuesday night with Cazzie David, who—accompanied by her “momager,” Laurie—pulled up to her own book party at AIR MAIL’s Hudson Street newsstand 20 minutes past six. In a deadpan that must be a family trait, she told the intern manning the door, “I’m pretty sure my name is on the list.”Though, now that I think of it, the 31-year-old, charmingly neurotic writer would READ ON