The Wing SoHo
For three months, The Wing has been my soft place to land.
A way station on the way home from work.
A midday detour to re-up on hairspray and Glossier You.
And a happy-hour destination with new friends, old friends, and visiting-from-out-of-town friends.
Since joining this women’s club in November, I’ve had more than my fair share of memorable experiences. I’ve watched Tina Brown tell war stories from the heyday of Vanity Fair, gotten skincare advice (and a ton of free Chanel swag!) from Amy Wechsler, and listened to Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors read from her new memoir on Martin Luther King Day. I’ve basically outsourced all my horizon-expanding and personal growth to The Wing, and it’s been wonderful.
But the thing I love most of all about The Wing isn’t its events, its spa water, or its phone booths named for female heroines – it's the libraries. At its Flatiron location, a librarian-in-residence chose thousands of books written by women for its shelves. Here at the club’s SoHo outpost, the “lady library” is curated by the “Books by the Foot” department of one of my top bookshops of all time, The Strand.
You can read more about the books chosen to grace the club’s shelves here. They include The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu (apparently the world’s oldest novel), A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, and Silent Spring by Rachel Carson, the book at the root of all my bouts of vegetarianism.
Hope you enjoy looking at this beautiful place as much as I relish spending time in it.
