A man who spent his youth going out ‘eight nights a week’, Bronson van Wyck would become an internationally acclaimed party tosser lauded by Vogue praised as 'The Wizard of Oz of New York’. In his first book, BORN TO PARTY, FORCED TO WORK (Phaidon; US$80), van Wyck distills the art of revelry in this lushly illustrated new coffee table tome that charts his most dazzling affairs, from heroic events to intimate gatherings.