A toast ...

... Carl Djerassi at 88: hitting the road – with champagne, too | The Book Haven.

... the evening hosted a reading of Carl’s newest play, Insufficiency – on the subject of (you guessed it) champagne. Or rather the chemical makeup of champagne and its bubbles, with a few digs along the way at the foibles of academic publishing, academic snobbery, and academic tenure. A pleasant coincidence for Carl that the subject of his “play in nine scenes” matched the bubbly theme of the event. (Karol Berger and Laurence Yansouni were slated to be the actors for the reading.)