New Yorker Festival Lineup Announces High-Brow Barrage

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Published on Thursday, 10 October 2013 00:06

Written by Kyle Sittig

The New Yorker Festival has unveiled its 2013 schedule, taking place October 4th-6th. It wouldn’t be claimed by The New Yorker if the lineup didn’t have plenty of intellectually stimulating material, including panels on everything from politics to literature to science.

As part of their Fiction Night, on the festival’s opening night, NYF will include moderated discussions with writers, such as Junot Diaz (Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao) and Karen Russell (Swamplandia!). A sneak preview of Aziz Ansari’s new Netflix special, Buried Alive. Ansari and Andy Borowitz will have a conversation, following the screening. For the film studies geeks, there will be a Panel entitled First-person Filmmaking: Movies as Modern art, with industry juggernauts Miranda July, Alex Karpovsky, Kenneth Lonergan, and Terence Nance. Michael Shannon, who has recently been acclaimed for his work with Jeff Nichols (Shotgun Stories, Take Shelter, Mud), will have a conversation with Burkhard Bilger, followed with a performance from Shannon’s band Corporal.

Saturday’s highlights include a discussion of digital media criticism with Jonathan Franzen and Clay Shirky, called Is Technology Good for Culture? Conversations with relevant celebrities, such as Ethan Hawke and Quentin Tarantino’s new lucky charm Christoph Waltz. On a lighter note, Billy Eichner will host An Evening with Funny or Die, which will provide a variety of sketches and new comedy videos. Saturday also includes a broad range of Panels on a variety of topics, including Hurricane Sandy, Journalism, and Espionage.

NYF’s final day will have Panels on the god particle and the role of television in politics, as well as a talk from James Wood, a conversation with Paul Simon, as well as many tours of famous New York locations. The American debut of Philomena, a new drama starring Judy Dench and Steven Coogan, will accompany a screening of The Phantom Tollbooth: Beyond Expectations, in the world premiere of a documentary about the children’s lit classic.

As usual, the NYF has a little (or a lot) of something for everyone. For more information and the full schedule, visit newyorker.com/festival.

The New Yorker Festival
October 4th-6th, 2013

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