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Martin Schneider writes:

I couldn't be at the New Yorker Summit yesterday, but through the magic of Twitter, I have iron-clad verbal/visual evidence that the food served during the lunch break was "quite good for being in a box."

In an unprecedented (for Emdashes) follow-up "Twinterview" (wince), attendee Jed Cohen elaborated: "Steak sandwich + tortellini salad + cookies + apple = yummy. Thanks New Yorker/NYU catering!"

Cohen continued: "They also had a

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Martin Schneider writes:

The New Yorker is posting updates to their News Desk blog, here. (You can follow The New Yorker's Twitter updates here or follow the #tnysummit hashtag.)

Emily is there, and we are hoping to have some tweets from her today as well.

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Martin Schneider writes:

Today The New Yorker posted information about the New Yorker Summit ($350, May 5) on its website. (We had the basics for you yesterday.)

This seems an important bit of business: Tickets go on sale March 23, but you can pre-register. Here's the text, straight from the horse's mouth: "Tickets go on sale March 23rd at 12 noon E.T. You can pre-register now by calling 212-286-5753 or e-mailing Phyllis_Stambolian@newyorker.com."

Yesterday we reported that Robert Shiller, Malcolm Gladwell, Richard Holbrooke, Geoffrey Canada, Neera Tanden, Howard Dean, and Nassim N. Taleb were on the bill. Today we learn that the attendees also include: Zbigniew Brzezinski, Esther Duflo, David Kilcullen, Naomi Klein, Robert Kuttner, Jeffrey Sachs, and R. James Woolsey. New Yorker-affiliated people to take part include John Cassidy, Malcolm Gladwell, Elizabeth Kolbert, Ryan Lizza, Jane Mayer, David Remnick, and James Surowiecki.

New Yorker description of the event after the jump:

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Martin Schneider writes:

In lieu of the regular New Yorker Conference that has taken place in early May the last two years, The New Yorker will be hosting a somewhat more urgent event befitting our nervous times. Called "The Next 100 Days," the New Yorker Summit evokes FDR's first 100 days in office in 1933, an implicit nod to the daunting challenges we face in 2009.

Quoth the magazine: "The New Yorker convenes today's most prominent thinkers and decision-makers to address the unprecedented challenges facing the new Administration, and to detail their visions for the future, in discussion with New Yorker

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Martin Schneider writes:

Earlier today The New Yorker posted the following item on its Festival blog:

This year marks the tenth anniversary of the New Yorker Festival, and so, to celebrate, we're expanding the programming to ten days: October 9-18.

The first seven days will feature an event a night, including:

* "Tales Out of School: New Yorker Writers on The New Yorker," an evening of recollections by our contributors, presented with the storytelling group the Moth

* "Brooklyn Playlist," a Festival concert featuring the bands of Brooklyn

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