Let's say that these fireworks are being let off by the NAVSA organizing committee in celebration of Seth Koven winning this year's NAVSA book prize for The Match Girl and the Heiress. At least - we were just setting out to walk up the beach to go and have dinner and celebrate this super-well-deserved achievement, and the timing was just right ... and they did give us (Seth, and then John Plotz and myself, as the judges of the prize) leis at the start of the Book Prize panel, so why not light up the skies as well?
Great photo. I'm only sorry you didn't capture the moment that Seth's name lit up the night sky. Thanks for your work on the book prize.
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