Until last night, we’d made deliveries via car, bus, subway, and on foot. Now we know the best way to roll into a party is with pastry boxes stacked high on the shelves of an old wooden library cart. Obviously. Thanks to the New York Public Library, we got to push our cupcakes through the halls of the iconic Stephen A. Schwarzman building on the way to a forum featuring novelist John Wray and Vampire Weekend frontman Ezra Koenig.

We set up next to the bartenders (always set up next to the bartenders) and started handing out cupcakes to members of the Young Lions, a group of NYPL supporters. We went through 200 cupcakes in under 3 hours, a new Brown Paper Bag record! Congrats, everyone. It was a team effort.

Kate had a blast hanging out and helping people pick which flavor to have first (then second, then third). It’s finally Spring in New York, and Vampire Weekend’s Contra was playing on the stereo. Maybe she was dancing a little, what of it? Just when we thought it couldn’t get better,  John Wray declared our cupcakes better than Magnolia’s. Not bad for a Tuesday at the library.

(This is John Wray. He writes good books and has excellent taste.)