The Kink App Throws a Party and the Guests Are Alarmed When Woody Allen Shows Up

“I was told that Allen had been carefully avoided.”

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At a launch party for a literary magazine funded by an evil app — yes, you read that right — Gen Z and millennial guests were baffled when their host Boomer’s most famous friends arrived.

In a New York Times scene report, the launch party for Feeld’s new literary magazine, aptly titled “A fucking magazine” Or AFM In short, it seemed like a fascinating meeting between the old guard of literati and its new, non-monogamous generation – until Woody Allen and his former adopted daughter-turned-wife Soon-Yi Previn showed up.

Hosted by essayist Daphne Merkin in her spacious Manhattan apartment, the script could very well have come out of a new Allen film if the #MeToo movement of 2017 hadn’t brought back the sexual abuse allegations against him made by another of his adopted children, Dylan Farrow.

“The Feeld team members watched with a bit of anxiety,” said writer Alex Vadukul, “while the host chatted with them in the corner.”

Indeed, the 88-year-old director of “Annie Hall” himself remarked how familiar the scene seemed.

“I would go to these parties, always hosted by writers like Norman Mailer or George Plimpton,” Allen told the New York Times. “You stood there talking to Susan Sontag or Dwight Macdonald. That’s how it was tonight.”

However, it is difficult to imagine who, at that time, would have made the guests as worried as this little-known author.

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Notably, the official newspaper did not interview any of the young writers who attended the conference. AFM launch party at Merkin’s on the Allen of it all – but that doesn’t mean people weren’t talking about it.

As The cut noted in his own reporting on the magazine’s biggest launch party, which took place the next day at a dance club across from the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, mention of the infamous attendees was passed on to the profile’s author.

“I was told that Allen was carefully avoided,” columnist Bindu Bansinath remarked parenthetically.

While we’re used to seeing people who are almost universally hated rubbing shoulders with the hoi polloi of Silicon Valley, hearing about such things happening in the world of dating apps and literary magazines seems a little more jarring.

One thing, however, is for sure: If Allen or Previn are on Feeld, they should do so without tagging any photos — because otherwise the rest of the non-monogamous, kinky New York crowd would be up in arms.

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