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2008 New Yorker Festival
10/03/2008
About
The New Yorker Festival, which will be held October 3-5, 2008, is a three-day series of events that brings together an eclectic array of writers, artists, actors, directors, musicians and politicians at venues throughout the city. This year's Festival takes place one month before the Presidential election, and there will be a special emphasis on politics in the Festival's programming, as well as a weekend-long voter-registration drive. In past years, Festival events have sold out quickly, drawing more than seventeen thousand people from around the world. The full program guide of fifty events is included in the September 15, 2008, issue of the magazine, on newsstands September 8th. This year's highlights include:

Right to Vote: The New Yorker Festival will partner with the New York City Board of Elections for a weekend-long voter-registration effort at all Festival venues and at Festival HQ, where special guests will be registering voters. A panel on political humor will feature "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" correspondents Samantha Bee and John Oliver; the "Saturday Night Live" writer James Downey; the humor writer Andy Borowitz; and Allison Silverman, the executive producer of "The Colbert Report."

Featured interviews include the TV personality Stephen Colbert; Republican Senator Chuck Hagel; the attorney and health-care advocate Elizabeth Edwards; the actor and director Clint Eastwood; the actor Paul Rudd; the actress Mary-Louise Parker; the guitarist Tom Morello (of Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave); the soprano Dawn Upshaw; the actor Tommy Lee Jones; the dancer and choreographer Alexei Ratmansky; the fiction writer Alice Munro; the Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney; and the novelist Haruki Murakami.

Tickets will also be sold during Festival weekend at Festival HQ, at Metropolitan Pavilion, 125 West 18th Street, and at event doors
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Mary-Louise
Parker
7
Speaker
Judith
Thurman
6
Tommy
Lee
Jones
6
Speaker
Wes Craven
6
Speaker
Susan
Sarandon
5
Ariel Levy
4
David Denby
4
Deborah
Harry
4
Junot Diaz
4
Lynda Barry
4
Tim Robbins
4
Oliver Stone
4
Speaker
Allison
Silverman
3
Andy
Borowitz
3
Bill Keller
3
David
Remnick
3
Dorothy
Wickenden
3
Dr
Cornel
West
3
George
Packer
3
Hendrik
Hertzberg
3
Hideo Nakata
3
Jack Shafer
3
Jeff
Eugenides
3
John
Colapinto
3
Matt
Groening
3
Peggy Noonan
3
Ryan Lizza
3
Samantha Bee
3
Seamus
Heaney
3
Susan
Morrison
3
Ta-Nehisi
Coates
3
Tom Morello
3
Elmore
Leonard
3
Speaker
Joyce
Carol
Oates
3
Speaker
Lillian Ross
3
Speaker
Matthew Klam
3
Speaker
Alan Cumming
2
Atul Gawande
2
Ben Greenman
2
Carin Besser
2
Haruki
Murakami
2
James Downey
2
Joeri
Van
Yper
2
Ken Auletta
2
Makoto
Takada
2
Paul Muldoon
2
Tad Friend
2
Anne Enright
2
Speaker
Elizabeth
Edwards
2
Speaker
Roddy Doyle
2
Speaker
Shalom
Auslander
2
Speaker
T.
Coraghessan
Boyle
2
Speaker
Alex
Castellanos
1
Barbara
Ehrenreich
1
Daniel
Zalewski
1
Eddie Falco
1
Edward
J.
Rollins
1
James
Surowiecki
1
Joe Trippi
1
Leo Carey
1
Raul
Esperanza
1
Todd Hanson
1
Jhumpa
Lahiri
1
Speaker
Sherman
Alexie
1
Speaker
Stephen
Colbert
1
Speaker
AlbertFerreira
18
Alex
Oliveira
57
Amanda
Schwab
16
Bill Davila
21
Charles
Manley
12
Debra
Rothenberg
12
Craig
Chester

Clint
Eastwood
Speaker
Ethan Hawke
Speaker
Gary
Shteyngart
Speaker
Guillermo
Del
Torro
Speaker
Hari Kunzru
Speaker
James Wood
Speaker
Jeffrey
Eugenides
Speaker
Junot Díaz
Speaker
Kristen
Johnston
Speaker
Manil Suri
Speaker
Michael
Specter
Speaker
Paul Rudd
Speaker
Peter Carey
Speaker
Sana
Krasikov
Speaker
Tobias Wolff
Speaker
Yiyun Li
Speaker
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