Chekhov's Mistress
New Yorker Festival
Lots of goodies in this year’s New Yorker Festival lineup:
Here are a few highlights:
Friday, 10/06
FICTION NIGHT
Monica Ali and Aleksandar Hemon
Donald Antrim and Tobias Wolff
Yiyun Li and Edwidge Danticat
Lorrie Moore and Julian Barnes
Antonya Nelson and Thomas McGuane
Uwem Akpan and Louise Erdrich
Charles D’Ambrosio and Sherman Alexie
Andrea Lee and T. Coraghessan Boyle
Jonathan Safran Foer and Edward P. Jones
Gary Shteyngart and George Saunders
Saturday 10/07
A poetry reading by John Ashbery
Calvin Trillin interviewed by Mark Singer
Garry Kasparov interviewed by David Remnick
Tom Stoppard interviewed by John Lahr
Pedro Almodóvar interviewed by David Denby
NEW YORKER TALKS
Oliver Sacks
Revisiting “Awakenings”
Anthony Lane
This Is Not Acting: Ava Gardner and the Mysteries of Stardom
PANELS
Fiction Into Film
With Michael Cunningham, Jhumpa Lahiri, Mira Nair, Edward Norton, Sarah Polley, and Liev Schreiber. Deborah Treisman, moderator.
Sunday 10/08
Zadie Smith
Fail Better
MASTER CLASSES
Seminars for people with advanced interest in the topic.
Master Class in Editing
With Roger Angell, Dorothy Wickenden, and Daniel Zalewski.
Master Class in Criticism
With Hilton Als and Anthony Lane.
Look for the full 2006 program schedule in the September 11th issue of The New Yorker, on newsstands September 4th. The Festival schedule will also be posted on the same date on festival.newyorker.com.
Tickets to all events may be purchased beginning on Thursday, September 7th, at 12 noon E.S.T. All programming is subject to change. Tickets available online at ticketmaster.com, at all outlets, or by phone: call 1-877-391-0545. All ticket orders are subject to service charges.
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- Posted by: Bud Parr
- Date: August 28, 2006
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