As we were excited to report recently, it's New Yorker Festival season! And here's the lineup for your browsing and ticket-buying pleasure. Oh, and Calvin Trillin's walk--you can try, but don't be crushed if it doesn't work out. It so rarely does, but then again, it could be your year for the golden ticket! Tickets go on sale Friday, September 12, and you can find them at the Festival website. Quoting from the press release: "Tickets will also be sold during the weekend at Festival Headquarters, located at 125 West 18th Street, and at event doors." See you there!

FRIDAY
OCTOBER 3
An evening of discussions among writers whose stories have appeared in The New Yorker; an interview with Alice Munro; a New Yorker Town Hall Meeting on race and class in America; a Cartoon Caption Contest at Festival HQ; and a New Yorker Dance Party.

FICTION NIGHT: DISCUSSIONS AMONG WRITERS
Writing About Home
Sana Krasikov, Yiyun Li, and Manil Suri, moderated by Cressida Leyshon
7 p.m. Acura Stage at Cedar Lake Theatre ($25)

The Devil Within
Matthew Klam, Elmore Leonard, and Joyce Carol Oates, moderated by Daniel Zalewski
7 p.m. Ailey Citigroup Theater
Joan Weill Center for Dance ($25)

The American Dream
T. Coraghessan Boyle, Jeffrey Eugenides, and Jhumpa Lahiri, moderated by Leo Carey
7 p.m. Angel Orensanz Foundation ($25)

Family Secrets
Roddy Doyle, Anne Enright, and Tobias Wolff, moderated by Willing Davidson
9:30 p.m. Acura Stage at Cedar Lake Theatre ($25)

Outlaws
Peter Carey, Hari Kunzru, and Gary Shteyngart, moderated by Peter Canby
9:30 p.m. Ailey Citigroup Theater
Joan Weill Center for Dance ($25)

Where I Come From
Sherman Alexie, Shalom Auslander, and Junot Díaz, moderated by Carin Besser
9:30 p.m. Angel Orensanz Foundation ($25)

FICTION NIGHT: IN CONVERSATION WITH

Alice Munro interviewed by Deborah Treisman
8 p.m. Directors Guild of America ($25)

THE NEW YORKER TOWN HALL MEETING: Race and Class in America
With Barbara Ehrenreich, Thomas Frank, John McWhorter, Leslie Sanchez, and Cornel West. Moderated by David Remnick.
7 p.m. Town Hall ($20)

CASUAL FRIDAY

The Cartoon Caption Game
Hosted by Robert Mankoff
8 p.m. Festival HQ
Metropolitan Pavilion ($25)

A NEW YORKER DANCE PARTY

Hosted by Sasha Frere-Jones, with special guest d.j. Ghislain Poirier. Opening set by Megasoid.
10 p.m. Hiro Ballroom and Lounge ($25)

SATURDAY
OCTOBER 4
A day of interviews, panel discussions, and talks by New Yorker writers; an excursion to Governors Island; Early Shift and Late Shift events; preview screenings of the upcoming films "Fear(s) of the Dark" and "Frontrunners"; and book signings at Festival HQ.

WRITERS AND THEIR SUBJECTS

Alexei Ratmansky and Joan Acocella
1 p.m. Acura Stage at Cedar Lake Theatre ($25)

Clint Eastwood and Lillian Ross
1 p.m. Directors Guild of America ($25)

Richard Brody on the films of Jean-Luc Godard
4 p.m. IFC Center ($25)

IN CONVERSATION WITH

Jean-Michel Dubernard interviewed by Atul Gawande
10 a.m. Acura Stage at Cedar Lake Theatre ($25)

Seamus Heaney interviewed by Paul Muldoon
1 p.m. New York Society for Ethical Culture ($25)

Chuck Hagel interviewed by Ryan Lizza
4 p.m. Acura Stage at Cedar Lake Theatre ($25)

Elizabeth Edwards interviewed by Atul Gawande
4 p.m. New York Society for Ethical Culture ($25)

Lynda Barry in conversation with Matt Groening
4 p.m. Festival HQ
Metropolitan Pavilion ($25)

NEW YORKER TALKS

Malcolm Gladwell: "The Ethnic Theory of Plane Crashes"
2 p.m. Ailey Citigroup Theater
Joan Weill Center for Dance ($25)

Art Spiegelman: "Breakdowns: Comix 101"
4:30 p.m. Ailey Citigroup Theater
Joan Weill Center for Dance ($25)

PANELS

If I Were Running This Campaign
Donna Brazile, Alex Castellanos, Edward J. Rollins, and Joe Trippi, moderated by Jeffrey Toobin
10 a.m. Directors Guild of America ($25)

Extreme Sports
Greg Child, Lynne Cox, and Andrew McLean, moderated by Nick Paumgarten
10 a.m. Festival HQ
Metropolitan Pavilion ($25)

Covering the Candidates
Ta-Nehisi Coates, Bill Keller, Peggy Noonan, and Jack Shafer, moderated by Ken Auletta
10 a.m. Cathedral NYC ($25)

The Next Generation of Fashion
Louise Markey, Makoto Takada, and Joeri Van Yper, moderated by Judith Thurman
1 p.m. Cathedral NYC ($25)

The Campaign Trail
Hendrik Hertzberg, Ryan Lizza, and George Packer, moderated by Dorothy Wickenden
1 p.m. Festival HQ
Metropolitan Pavilion ($25)

Political Humor
Samantha Bee, Andy Borowitz, James Downey, John Oliver, and Allison Silverman, moderated by Susan Morrison
4 p.m. Cathedral NYC ($25)

Young Shakespeareans
Lauren Ambrose, Ethan Hawke, Kristen Johnston, Martha Plimpton, and Liev Schreiber, moderated by Adam Gopnik
4 p.m. Directors Guild of America ($25)

ABOUT TOWN

A Governors Island Bike Tour
Adriaan Geuze, Leslie Koch, and Ricardo Scofidio talk with Paul Goldberger.
11 a.m. Governors Island Ferry Terminal ($80)

EARLY SHIFT

Saturday Night Sneak Preview: "Frontrunners"
Moderated by Rebecca Mead.
6:30 p.m. Stuyvesant High School ($25)

Paul Rudd talks with Michael Specter
7:30 p.m. Acura Stage at Cedar Lake Theatre ($35)

Dawn Upshaw talks with Alex Ross
7:30 p.m. Ailey Citigroup Theater
Joan Weill Center for Dance ($35)

Stephen Colbert talks with Ariel Levy
7:30 p.m. Cathedral NYC ($35)

Worst Nightmares Part 1: Horror Movies
Wes Craven and Hideo Nakata, moderated by Ben Greenman.
7:30 p.m. IFC Center ($35)

LATE SHIFT

Tom Morello talks with James Surowiecki
10 p.m. Acura Stage at Cedar Lake Theatre ($35)

Mary-Louise Parker talks with John Colapinto
10 p.m. Ailey Citigroup Theater
Joan Weill Center for Dance ($35)

Oliver Stone talks with David Denby
10 p.m. Directors Guild of America ($35)

Worst Nightmares Part 2: "Fear(s) of the Dark"
Charles Burns and Lorenzo Mattotti, moderated by Françoise Mouly.
10 p.m. IFC Center ($25)

SUNDAY
OCTOBER 5
A day of About Town excursions and events throughout the city; talks by New Yorker writers; interviews with Tommy Lee Jones and Haruki Murakami; a series of master classes in political cartooning, humor writing, and literary criticism; and book signings at Festival HQ.

ABOUT TOWN

Morning at the Frick
With Peter Schjeldahl
10 a.m. Frick Collection ($65)

Come Hungry
With Calvin Trillin
11 a.m. Ticket buyers will be contacted concerning the starting point. ($100)

Inside the Artist's Studio
John Currin talks with Calvin Tomkins
11 a.m. Ticket buyers will be contacted concerning the location. ($80)

Presto Change-o
Matthew Holtzclaw, Charles Reynolds, Jamy Ian Swiss, and Johnny Thompson, moderated by Adam Gopnik
11 a.m. Spiegeltent-Salon Perdu ($30)

Spice World
Claudia Roden talks with Jane Kramer
12 noon. Culinary Loft ($80)

WRITERS AND THEIR SUBJECTS

Tommy Lee Jones and Lillian Ross
11 a.m. Directors Guild of America ($25)

IN CONVERSATION WITH

Haruki Murakami interviewed by Deborah Treisman
4 p.m. Directors Guild of America ($25)

NEW YORKER TALKS

Paul Theroux: "Reliving 'The Great Railway Bazaar'"
1 p.m. Ailey Citigroup Theater
Joan Weill Center for Dance ($25)

Salman Rushdie: "The Composite Artist: The Emperor Akbar and the Making of the Hamzanama"
4 p.m. Ailey Citigroup Theater
Joan Weill Center for Dance ($25)

MASTER CLASSES

Political Illustration
With Barry Blitt and Steve Brodner
10 a.m. Festival HQ
Metropolitan Pavilion ($35)

Humor Writing
With Ian Frazier and Mark Singer
1 p.m. Festival HQ
Metropolitan Pavilion ($35)

Literary Criticism
With James Wood
4 p.m. Festival HQ
Metropolitan Pavilion ($35)

BOOK SIGNINGS

Saturday, October 4

11 A.M.
Joyce Carol Oates - "My Sister, My Love: The Intimate Story of Skyler Rampike"
Tobias Wolff - "Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories"

12 noon
Roddy Doyle - "The Deportees: And Other Stories"
Anne Enright - "Yesterday's Weather: Stories"

1 P.M.
Alice Munro - "The View from Castle Rock"
Haruki Murakami - "What I Talk About When I Talk About Running: A Memoir"

2 P.M.
Sana Krasikov - "One More Year: Stories"
Manil Suri - "The Age of Shiva: A Novel"

3 P.M.
Peter Carey - "His Illegal Self"
Paul Theroux - "Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar"

4 P.M.
Robert Mankoff - "The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest Book"
Susan Orlean - "Lazy Little Loafers"

Sunday, October 5

11 A.M.
Hari Kunzru - "My Revolutions"
Jhumpa Lahiri - "Unaccustomed Earth"

12 noon
Richard Brody - "Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard"
John Seabrook - "Flash of Genius: And Other True Stories of Invention"

1 P.M.
Salman Rushdie - "The Enchantress of Florence"
Art Spiegelman - "Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*!" and "Jack and the Box"

2 P.M.
Peter Schjeldahl - "Let's See: Writings on Art from The New Yorker"
James Wood - "How Fiction Works"

3 P.M.
Lynda Barry - "What It Is"
Steve Brodner - "Artists Against the War"

4 P.M.
John McWhorter - "Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold Story of English"