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At Henry James's annual New Year's Eve Party, December 31, 2008, affluent writers across the ages gather to celebrate the New Year. Edgar Allen Poe is drunkenly making feeble attempts to flirt with Emily Dickenson, Shakespeare flew in from Britain to convince Nathaniel Hawthorne to turn Rappaccini's Daughter into a play, and Sarah Orne Jewett and Henry James talk politics beside the apartment's roaring fire.
A short story.