Invitation from the Proust Society of America

This is the invitation I got with my Proust newsletter:

If you plan to be in New York City on July 9th, please join The Proust Society of America at our Proust Fest 2005: Swann's Song.

To celebrate the 134th birthday of Marcel Proust, on July 9, 2005 the Proust Society and the Mercantile Library of New York will sponsor an all-day, public reading in English of Swann in Love. Members of the Proust Society, noted authors, and invited celebrities will read Proust's famous account of the passionate and complex love affair between Charles Swann and Odette de Crecy. The reading will begin at 10 a.m. at the Mercantile Library and conclude around 11 p.m. Madeleines from Payard and tea will be available. Admission, $5.00. For more information, visit our Web site, Reservations required. Call 1(212) 755-6510. Mercantile Library, 17 East 47th Street (between Fifth Avenue and Madison Avenue)