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Monday, September 10, 2007

Sound the Alarm!



Photo by myself of the fire station in Chinatown, around Lafayette and Canal Street.


The New Yorker Festival is coming!!

Over the last few years, my favorite magazine has hosted a remarkable event called the the New Yorker Festival. Over the span of a weekend, well-known authors, artists and thinkers hold conversations and interviews.

I've seen Steve Martin, Chuck Close, David Byrne, the late Richard Avedon, Malcolm Gladwell, and the creators of South Park (Trey Parker and Matt Stone), among others. It is a fantastic treat, and you have to pick and choose what you can see.

The schedule is out in today's magazine, and tickets go on sale September 15. Better get that speed dial! I tried getting tickets to a talk last year and it was sold out within a couple minutes.

A quick look at the schedule shows Annie Proulx, Zadie Smith, Jhumpa Lahiri, Paul Theroux, Salman Rushdie, Norman Mailer, Martin Amis, Steve Martin, Neil LaBute, David Byrne....how does one choose?!


Above, a photo of a lovely old firehouse on Lafayette, sandwiched between two banal glass buildings. Now a community house, you can just imagine how the old firetrucks roared out the red doors.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

I've never been to the New Yorker Festival (I'm so ashamed!) but I'm going to try and go this year. I like your blog--I'm a fellow New Yorker who also blogs about NYC, but mostly about what happens in the subway. Check it out! http://cityencounters.blogspot.com. I'd love to add your blog to my blog list favs! =)

Kitty said...

Hi there!
I dropped by your blog for a nanosecond but I will have to go back again at a reasonable hour. The little bit I read was great.
Thanks so much for visiting and I'll be sure to add you!
best, k