I met a bunch of people at Jesse Walker‘s birthday party Saturday night in Baltimore, some of whom have blogs. So, in the spirit of an expansive definition of “People I Know,” I’m linking to three new people who I barely know at all (Jim Henley, Jeremy Lott and Eve Tushnet) in my list to the right (a list that contains quite a few people that I actually know quite well . . . really). I enjoyed the party, very much, although — vibrant conversationalist that I am — I spent more time listening to others than actually talking to them. It always seems to me like I’m more involved in conversations than I really am, actively caught up in the flow of what others are saying, only realizing later that I didn’t contribute much in the way of real, actual words to the discussion. At any rate, there’s nothing like a roomful of brilliant writers to make one feel like a stammering subliterate. Or is that just me?

Many of the people I met Saturday live in the DC area, so hopefully I’ll see some of them again — so they can be “People I Know” in more than just a nominal sense.