From Andy about big NYC DEM BASH!

They're not Greek, there are only two of them, and there is some question whether they can even be persuaded to wear their wreaths.

(Oh -- and they don't sing.)

But we have recruited A GREEK CHORUS for the December 5 dinner that could add an element a little different from the typical political fundraiser.

So . . .

. . . if you're already coming, please call a friend and inspire him or her to jump on board.

All they need to do is visit snipurl.com/ComeWrite (Sorry: you need to cut and paste that. I am trapped in AOL 5.0.)

. . . and if you yourself have been on the fence about coming, let me remind you that we will be joined at the Waldorf Starlight Roof by a long list of terrific writers, all coming to help COME WRITE HISTORY -- AGAIN (as in: let's repeat in 2008 our success of 2006).

So far:

* EDWARD ALBEE -- not one but THREE Pulitzer Prizes (and that doesn't even include WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF for which he merely won a Tony and a Grammy).

* DAVID AUBURN, whose Pulitzer (just one, but he's young) was for PROOF.

* NORA EPHRON, whose latest best seller, I FEEL BAD ABOUT MY NECK: AND OTHER THOUGHTS ON BEING A WOMAN, Publisher's Weekly calls "sparkling."

* MARSHALL BRICKMAN, who wrote the book for JERSEY BOYS, co-wrote ANNIE HALL, and -- this kid from Brooklyn -- lay down the banjo soundtrack for DELIVERANCE.

* ARTHUR FROMMER, author of EUROPE ON $5 A DAY and all its progeny, who, like many of our esteemed authors, is not only lending us his celebrity, but writing us a check.

* JOHN BERENDT, whose MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL has sold seven billion copies in 950 languages and doubled the tourist trade of Savannah.

* MARIE BRENNER, author of GREAT DAMES (What I Learned from Older Women) and VANITY FAIR writer-at-large. Her tobacco industry piece became Russell Crowe's seven-Academy-Awards THE INSIDER.

* STEVE BRILL, founder of THE AMERICAN LAWYER and COURT TV -- and now FLYCLEAR.com (so you can breeze thru security if your retina scans) . . . author of THE TEAMSTERS and of AFTER: HOW AMERICA CONFRONTED THE SEPTEMBER 12 ERA. (Badly, I would say.)

* LISA BIRNBACH, whose THE PREPPY HANDBOOK Amazon.com readers are *still* giving five stars, even in this age of bling.

* JUSTIN FRANK, MD, clinical psychiatry professor and author of BUSH ON THE COUCH: INSIDE THE MIND OF THE PRESIDENT. (Hint: "an untreated alcoholic supported by a nation of enablers.")

* DREW WESTEN, whose THE POLITICAL BRAIN: THE ROLE OF EMOTION IN DECIDING THE FATE OF THE NATION Governor Dean so often cites for what it tells us about how to win elections.

* Columnist LIZ SMITH -- who knows everybody, knows all their secrets, yet somehow still leaves them all feeling good. "Gossip is just news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress," she says in her autobiography, NATURALLY BLONDE.

* Charles Kaiser, author of 1968 IN AMERICA -- that pivotal year -- and of THE GAY METROPOLIS ("Brisk, splashy, dishy...Kaiser is a gifted popular historian" -- Washington Post).

* ANDY BOROWITZ, who lights up the Internet with daily "shockers" and whose humor you've seen in The New Yorker. ("A Swiftean satirist," the Wall Street Journal calls him.)

* OLIVER SACKS, whose AWAKENINGS became the Robin Williams / Robert De Niro movie, whose THE MAN WHO MISTOOK HIS WIFE FOR A HAT is endlessly fascinating (and true!) -- Professor of clinical neurology and clinical psychiatry, just named Columbia University's first ever "Columbia artist."

* KEVIN SESSUMS, who was Andy Warhol's executive editor at INTERVIEW, a long-time VANITY FAIR contributing editor, and author of the recent, searing and sibilant autobiography, MISSISSIPPI SISSY.

* JESSE KORNBLUTH, author, screenwriter, belief.net blogger, contributor to New York, the New Yorker, and the New York Times -- for five years editorial director of America Online -- now America's HEAD BUTLER (headbutler.com).

* Pulitzer Prize-winning poet PAUL MULDOON, Princeton professor and newly-named Poetry Editor of THE NEW YORKER . . . described by The Times Literary Supplement as "the most significant English-language poet born since the second World War."

* BILL PRESS, former CROSSFIRE co-host, former California Democratic Party Chair, current syndicated columnist and progressive talk radio star, author of HOW THE REPUBLICANS STOLE CHRISTMAS -- four Emmy's.

* RABBI DENNIS SHULMAN, author of THE GENIUS OF GENESIS and THE BIBLICAL PSYCHOANALYST -- a practicing psychoanalyst . . . blind . . . testing the waters for a Congressional run.

Not to mention GOVERNOR HOWARD DEAN (you've heard of him?), author of YOU HAVE THE POWER: HOW TO TAKE BACK OUR COUNTRY AND RESTORE DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA.

Plus a couple hundred *wonderful* donors like yourself.

Please come, and at the highest level you can afford.

Just go to snipurl.com/ComeWrite to sign up.

We need to win.

Your help in 2007 is even more important, and leveraged, than it will be next year.

THANKS!

Andy
snipurl.com/ComeWrite

PS - GARRY TRUDEAU has donated THE PERFECT DOONESBURY STRIP as a door prize, to be inscribed to whoever walks away with it.