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The entire staff of Emdashes is excited to bring this year's New Yorker Festival schedule. It looks like another terrific year, and we hope to see you there! There are more details on all of the events here.
Tickets for The New Yorker Festival will go on sale at 12 noon E.T. on Friday, September 10th. Click here for details.
Friday, October 1
6 p.m.
"The Social Network" (Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Timberlake, Aaron Sorkin)
Directors Guild Theatre ($30)
7 p.m.
James Taylor
Acura at SIR Stage37 ($35)
Alec Baldwin
SVA Theatre 1 ($35)
"Living History" (Peter Carey, E. L. Doctorow, Annie Proulx)
SVA Theatre 2 ($25)
Lorrie Moore
(Le) Poisson Rouge ($25)
9:30 p.m.
Possessed (Jonathan Safran Foer, Orhan Pamuk)
Directors Guild Theatre ($25)
Michael Chabon and Zadie Smith
Acura at SIR Stage37 ($25)
Giving Voice (Uwem Akpan, Edwidge Danticat, Dave Eggers)
SVA Theatre 1 ($25)
The Parent Trap (Mary Karr, Tobias Wolff)
SVA Theatre 2 ($25)
Sex and Violence (Junot DÃaz, Joyce Carol Oates, Wells Tower)
(Le) Poisson Rouge ($25)
Saturday, October 2
10 a.m.
The Tea Party (Dick Armey, Jill Lepore, Rick Santelli, Anthony Weiner)
Directors Guild Theatre ($30)
Paul Krugman
Acura at SIR Stage37 ($30)
Atul Gawande
SVA Theatre 1 ($30)
Ken Auletta
SVA Theatre 2 ($30)
1 p.m.
Bill Simmons
Directors Guild Theatre ($30)
The Vampire Revival (Noël Carroll, Stephen King, Matt Reeves, Melissa Rosenberg)
Acura at SIR Stage37 ($30)
Fashion Forward (Maria Cornejo, Naeem Khan, Phillip Lim, David Neville, Marcus Wainwright)
SVA Theatre 1 ($30)
James Surowiecki
SVA Theatre 2 ($30)
4 p.m.
Natural Disasters (Susan Hough, Charles Mandeville, Joshua Wurman, Don Yeomans)
Directors Guild Theatre ($30)
David Simon
Acura at SIR Stage37 ($30)
The Case for Gay Marriage (David Boies and other panelists, to be announced)
SVA Theatre 1 ($30)
Paul Goldberger
SVA Theatre 2 ($30)
6:30 p.m.
Tales Out of School 2 (David Grann, Jane Mayer, Susan Orlean, Jeffrey Toobin, Calvin Trillin)
(Le) Poisson Rouge ($50)
7 p.m.
Werner Herzog
Directors Guild Theatre ($35)
Yo-Yo Ma
Acura at SIR Stage37 ($35)
Paul Reubens
SVA Theatre 1 ($35)
Patricia Clarkson
SVA Theatre 2 ($35)
8 p.m.
"The Human Scale" (Lawrence Wright)
3LD Art & Technology Center ($35)
10 p.m.
"Sympathy for Delicious" (Mark Ruffalo, Christopher Thornton)
Directors Guild Theatre ($30)
Regina Spektor
Acura at SIR Stage37 ($35)
Andrew Bujalski, Greta Gerwig, and Joe Swanberg
SVA Theatre 2 ($30)
Sunday, October 3
10 a.m.
Morning at the Frick (Peter Schjeldahl)
The Frick Collection ($60)
Tugboat Manhattan (Burkhard Bilger)
South Street Seaport Museum ($120)
11 a.m.
Come Hungry (Calvin Trillin)
Ticket buyers will be contacted concerning the location. ($120)
Steve Carell
Acura at SIR Stage37 ($30)
12 noon
Inside the Artist's Studio (Platon)
Ticket buyers will be contacted concerning the location. ($60)
A Visit to the Glass House (Paul Goldberger)
The Philip Johnson Glass House ($150)
1 p.m.
Neil Gaiman
Directors Guild Theatre ($30)
The Cartoon Caption Game (Robert Mankoff, Matthew Diffee, Carolita Johnson, Barbara Smaller)
Condé Nast Executive Dining Room ($35)
Malcolm Gladwell
SVA Theatre 1 ($30)
Ian Frazier
SVA Theatre 2 ($30)
4 p.m.
Verses (John Ashbery, Anne Carson, Cynthia Cruz, Jorie Graham, Tracy K. Smith, Paul Muldoon)
Directors Guild Theatre ($20)
Live from New York (Seth Meyers and others)
Acura at SIR Stage37 ($30)
Your Brain on the Internet (Nicholson Baker, Elizabeth Phelps, Jonah Lehrer, Jaron Lanier)
SVA Theatre 1 ($30)
Alex Ross
SVA Theatre 2 ($30)