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Filed under: New Yorker Festival Tagged: architecture, Carolita Johnson, Cressida Leyshon, David Denby, David Remnick, design, environment, events, James Surowiecki, Jeffrey Toobin, John Seabrook, Judith Thurman, Ken Auletta, Michael Specter, New Yorker Conference, politics, technology
Really! That was at the cocktail party after the whizbang New Yorker Conference yesterday; I’m using the festival illustration to the left there because I love this portrait of me by Carolita. I’ll post proper notes later, and I’m writing up the conference for PRINT’s website, too. For now, I’ll say the conference was very well organized and run (no technical glitches in all twelve hours, as far as I could tell, except when the hit predictor balked), the Frank Gehry IAC building is beautiful, and the laptops on hand for compulsive email checking were from the Dark Star, but I confess I liked them anyway—superfast, with freakish, alive-seeming screensavers. Anyway, some of the high points for me were watching the events with Yves Béhar, Tim Wu, Jonathan Haidt, and Younghee Jung; talking to David Denby (who probably thought I was tracking him with a GPS, but I was just giddy to be sitting near him) and Cressida Leyshon; laughing at the antics of Barry Diller, Arianna Huffington, and Craig Newmark; seeing David Remnick do an ace interview with Cory A. Booker, the plucky mayor of Newark; and meeting Judith Thurman, Ken Auletta, Jeffrey Toobin, John Seabrook, and the unimpeachable Michael Specter. The Spore demonstration was hasty but tantalizing, and the drinks were delicious. What a treat!
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Dashes, some say, “are particularly useful in a sentence that is long and complex.” Emdashes—like an em dash itself—provides a thoughtful pause amid the hubbub.
Emdashes, founded in 2004, is written and drawn by Emily Gordon, Martin Schneider, Pollux, Jonathan Taylor, and Benjamin Chambers, as well as occasional guest contributors. All posts before October 2008 are by Emily Gordon.
The site was designed by House of Pretty with illustrations by Jesse R. Ewing.
Additional drawings are by Carolita Johnson and Pollux (author of our web comic, "The Wavy Rule"). The Emdashes pencil logo is by Jennifer Hadley, based on a 1943 Dorothy Gray ad.
Other writing by Emily Gordon
- Writing on theater: reviews (for Time Out Chicago; imperfect but workable search results)
- Profile: Valerie Casey, Designers Accord founder, is spearheading the design of sustainability (for SXSW World)
- Feature: Rea Irvin: visionary art director, bon vivant, New Yorker founding father (for Print)
- Slide show: the Coney Island Mermaid Parade (for NYCgo.com)
- Feature: Muslim immigration iconography in the Netherlands, and an interview with Ayaan Hirsi Ali (for Print)
- Review: King's Gambit: A Son, a Father, and the World's Most Dangerous Game by Paul Hoffman (for Newsday)
- Homage: Celebrating lindy-hop legend Frankie Manning (for NYCgo.com)
- Inquiry: Does a New Republic redesign mean a change of tune? (for Print)
- Interview: James Surowiecki on what's next for the wisdom of crowds (for Assignment Zero)
- Interviews: four up-and-coming designers under 30 (for Print)
- Profile: novelist and dance critic Laura Jacobs (for Newsday)
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so jealous! i kept seeing ads for the conference and wished i could go. thanks for the review, though — almost like being there!!
I love James Surowiecki. Did you actually talk to him? Reading his pieces makes me feel like I actually understand the economy-for a few minutes, anyway.