Borrowed in Brooklyn

BPL · Book · 2025

Having people over : a modern guide to planning, throwing, and attending every type of party

Chelsea Fagan

In a world that often feels disconnected and transactional, there's nothing more radically hospitable than welcoming people into your space, your table, and your life. In this accessible, inviting book on hosting and entertaining, author, CEO, and internet big sister Chelsea Fagan guides readers on creating moments worth staying in for. From designing the right space, to crafting a menu that won't keep you in the kitchen all night, to revitalizing the lost art of cultivating grown-up communities, this book will make you the perfect host at every budget. Having People Over includes guides for: • Curating a space optimized for entertaining, so people can drop by without it sending you into a tailspin. • A brief history of the cocktail hour, and its imagined future, including recipes with and without spirits. • The 101 tutorial for all things dinner parties: inviting guests, setting the table, planning a menu, creating a mood board, and actually enjoying the evening yourself. • Facilitating a (platonic) adult sleepover, and why you definitely should! • How to be good guest wherever you go, from when to show up, to what to bring, to what absolutely not to do. With chic, stylized photography and charming, illustrative line drawings throughout, providing everything from sample tablescapes to charcuterie board maps, and plenty of actual recipes for your next gathering, Having People Over will transform your relationship to entertaining, one apéritif at a time."--

Demand pressureiDemand pressure: composite score across the 12 tracked branches — rewards low availability, branches all out, recent drops, and (when exposed) public hold counts. Higher = harder to get borough-wide.

123

Available

4/7

Branches all out

1/4

Public holdsiPublic holds: BPL exposes 'people waiting' at the bib (record) level — one number per work for the entire 60+ branch BPL system, NOT just the 12 tracked branches. We capture the number when it's there. 'Not exposed' means BPL didn't expose it on this scrape — we never substitute zero for missing data.

not exposed

ISBN 9780593836866