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Announcing the 16Th Annual New Yorker Festival, October 2-4 in New York City Announcing the 16th Annual New Yorker Festival, October 2-4 in New York City Featuring Adam Driver, Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson, Zaha Hadid, Joi Ito, Billy Joel, JR, Norman Lear, Congressman John Lewis, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Toni Morrison, Mark Ronson, Sleater-Kinney, Patti Smith, and More Than 125 Others And Introducing Tech@Fest, a Special Series of Events Exploring Technology’s Place in Society (New York, N.Y. – September 8, 2015)—On October 2, 3, and 4, 2015, The New Yorker will present its sixteenth annual Festival, a three-day celebration that brings to life the magazine’s rich reporting and incisive cultural coverage, plus live performances, film previews, and one-of-a-kind excursions throughout New York City. Drawing together an acclaimed and exciting group of writers, artists, and thinkers from a range of fields—including film, music, television, politics, architecture, science, food, and literature—the Festival is New York City’s foremost cultural event of the season. This year, the New Yorker Festival will introduce Tech@Fest, a slate of programs on Friday, October 2nd, and Saturday, October 3rd, featuring innovators, engineers, artists, entrepreneurs, and disruptors discussing the radical implications of technological advancements and their potential to transform our world. Tech@Fest will take place in the Condé Nast photography studios at One World Trade Center, home of The New Yorker. Since the Festival’s inception, events have sold out quickly, drawing nearly twenty thousand people from around the world every year. The full program guide is available at newyorker.com/festival and on the New Yorker Festival app, available for iPhone and Android devices. The September 14, 2015, issue of the magazine, on newsstands now, also features the Festival schedule. Below is the program lineup, in brief. To request press credentials, email Adrea Piazza at [email protected]. Please specify which event(s) you are interested in covering. This year’s one-on-one interviews with luminaries in a variety of fields include: • The actor Adam Driver in conversation with The New Yorker’s Lizzie Widdicombe • The creators and stars of “Broad City,” Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson, in conversation with The New Yorker’s Emily Nussbaum • The actor Jason Segel in conversation with The New Yorker’s Michael Schulman • The writer, performer, and visual artist Patti Smith in conversation with The New Yorker’s David Remnick, in advance of the publication of her forthcoming book • The author Toni Morrison in conversation with The New Yorker’s Hilton Als • The actor Jesse Eisenberg in conversation with The New Yorker’s Susan Morrison • The rock band Sleater-Kinney in conversation with The New Yorker’s Dana Goodyear • The composer, lyricist, and actor Lin-Manuel Miranda, whose musical “Hamilton” is now on Broadway, in conversation with The New Yorker’s Rebecca Mead • The actress Julianna Margulies in conversation with The New Yorker’s Joshua Rothman • Congressman John Lewis, the only surviving member of the Big Six, the leaders of six prominent organizations at the center of the civil-rights movement, in conversation with The New Yorker’s David Remnick • The writer and comedian Marc Maron in conversation with The New Yorker’s Kelefa Sanneh • The actor Jeffrey Tambor in conversation with The New Yorker’s Ariel Levy • The actress Sigourney Weaver in conversation with The New Yorker’s Anthony Lane • The author Don DeLillo in conversation with The New Yorker’s Deborah Treisman • The television writer and producer Norman Lear in conversation with The New Yorker’s Emily Nussbaum • The architect Zaha Hadid in conversation with The New Yorker’s John Seabrook • The comedian, writer, producer, and television host Larry Wilmore in conversation with The New Yorker’s David Remnick • The actor Damian Lewis in conversation with The New Yorker’s Lauren Collins • The filmmaker Andrew Jarecki in conversation with The New Yorker’s Patrick Radden Keefe • The comedian Jim Gaffigan in conversation with The New Yorker’s Andy Borowitz • The writers and New Yorker contributors Jonathan Safran Foer and George Saunders in conversation • The actress Ellie Kemper in conversation with The New Yorker’s Lauren Collins • The writer, screenwriter, and political activist Larry Kramer in conversation with The New Yorker’s Calvin Trillin • The writers and New Yorker contributors Junot Díaz and Aleksandar Hemon in conversation • Tech@Fest: Joi Ito, the director of the M.I.T. Media Lab, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in conversation with the newyorker.com editor Nicholas Thompson • Tech@Fest: Sean Murray, the architect of the hotly anticipated video game No Man’s Sky, in conversation with The New Yorker’s Raffi Khatchadourian. Murray will also give a sneak preview of the game. There will be conversations accompanied by musical performances, featuring: • The singer, songwriter, and composer Billy Joel in conversation with The New Yorker’s Nick Paumgarten • The recording artist Mark Ronson in conversation with Jeff Bhasker and Michael Chabon, moderated by The New Yorker’s John Seabrook • The musician and composer Trey Anastasio, of Phish, in conversation with The New Yorker’s Alec Wilkinson • The pop-rock group HAIM in conversation with The New Yorker’s Kelefa Sanneh • The New R. & B.: Azekel, Bilal, James Fauntleroy, and Kelela in conversation, moderated by The New Yorker’s Andrew Marantz • The sounds of Cuba: the journalist Elaine Díaz Rodríguez, the musician Pedrito Martinez, and the writer Yoss will engage in a conversation, accompanied by performances from Descemer Bueno and the Pedrito Martinez Group. Moderated by The New Yorker’s Jon Lee Anderson. • Tech@Fest: SoundCloud Lounge: the SoundCloud founder and C.E.O. Alexander Ljung in conversation with The New Yorker’s John Seabrook. Musical performances from prominent SoundCloud artists to be announced. • Tech@Fest: the comedian, actor, writer, and musician Reggie Watts, who is known for creating improvised sets with his voice, keyboard, and a looping machine, in conversation with The New Yorker’s Emma Allen. And sneak previews: • A preview screening of the HBO documentary “Very Semi-Serious: A Partially Thorough Portrait of New Yorker Cartoonists.” The screening will be accompanied by a conversation with the New Yorker cartoonists Liana Finck, Emily Flake, Mort Gerberg, and the cartoon editor, Robert Mankoff. Moderated by the New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast. • A preview screening of the feature film “The Lady in the Van,” which is adapted from a play by Alan Bennett, followed by a conversation between The New Yorker’s Judith Thurman and the director, Nicholas Hytner. • A preview screening of the short film “Ellis,” starring Robert De Niro, followed by a conversation between The New Yorker’s Françoise Mouly and the artist JR, who directed the film. • A reading of the forthcoming play “Cleo,” written by The New Yorker’s Lawrence Wright, which details the fraught production of the 1963 Hollywood film “Cleopatra” and the scandalous love affair between Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, which brought condemnation from the Vatican. Directed by Bob Balaban, with Damian Lewis as Richard Burton and other cast members to be announced. Panel discussions on a wide array of subjects will include: • “The Fire This Time: Black in America,” a panel about black identity and conditional citizenship, featuring the writer Ta-Nehisi Coates; the actor and activist Jesse Williams; the journalist, screenwriter, and producer David Simon; the author Claudia Rankine; and the actress, playwright, and activist Danai Gurira. Moderated by The New Yorker’s Jelani Cobb. • “9 on the Richter Scale,” a panel about the earthquake that threatens to devastate the Pacific Northwest, as detailed in Kathryn Schulz’s New Yorker piece of the same name, featuring Chris Goldfinger, a professor of geology and geophysics at Oregon State University and one of the leading experts on the Pacific Northwest earthquake fault; Stephen Mahin, the director of the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center and a professor of structural engineering at the University of California, Berkeley; and Carmen Merlo, the director of the Portland Bureau of Emergency Management. Moderated by The New Yorker’s Kathryn Schulz. • “The Writing Process,” a panel about putting words to paper, featuring the authors Jeffrey Eugenides, Sheila Heti, and Ben Lerner. Moderated by The New Yorker’s Cressida Leyshon. • “The Hillary Question,” a panel about Hillary Clinton’s career, campaign, and quest to become America’s first female President, featuring the writer Roxane Gay; Frances Townsend, the former assistant to President George W. Bush for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism; Geraldo Cadava, an immigration professor at Northwestern University; and The New Yorker’s Amy Davidson. Moderated by The New Yorker’s Jill Lepore. • “Justice Delayed: Guilty Until Proven Innocent,” a panel on wrongful convictions, featuring Tyrone Hood, the subject of a New Yorker Profile by Nicholas Schmidle detailing the more than twenty years he spent in prison for a crime he didn’t commit; the former Governor of Illinois Patrick Quinn, who acted on nearly five thousand clemency petitions while in office; Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson; and Shawn Armbrust, the executive director of the Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project. Moderated by The New Yorker’s Nicholas Schmidle. • “Nouveau Science Fiction,” a panel about reinventing the genre, featuring the author Emily St. John Mandel; the screenwriter, producer, and actress Brit Marling; and the television producer and screenwriter Jonathan Nolan. Moderated by The New Yorker’s Daniel Zalewski. • “Creating Complicated Characters,” a panel about complicated characters in literature, featuring the writers Joshua Ferris, Yiyun Li, and Lionel Shriver. Moderated by The New Yorker’s Willing Davidson. • Tech@Fest: “CRISPR,” a panel about cutting-edge gene technology, featuring the biochemist Jennifer Doudna, who is credited with the discovery of a streamlined technique for altering an organism’s DNA; Kevin Esvelt, a technology-development fellow at the Wyss Institute at Harvard University; Feng Zhang, a member of the Broad Institute of M.I.T.
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