Emily Gordon writes:
That’s now! Go get ’em! Can’t remember what’s playing this year? Here’s the list. (And there are always late-addition new events, listed here.) There’s also a Festival Twitter feed, @NewYorkerFest, so you’ll want to jump onto that.
We’re now in our fourth year of covering the Festival. Look for more Emdashes staff previews, reports, reviews, and postscripts throughout the next month and beyond.
Monthly Archives: September 2009
The Wavy Rule, a Daily Comic by Pollux: Anger Mismanagement
Ever wondered what those typographical symbols that stand for profanities are called? Answer: “grawlixes.”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grawlix
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Enter the New Yorker Festival Fanatic Contest!
Martin Schneider writes:
Oh boy, this should be good. The New Yorker Festival has invited its hardcore junkies to outdo one another. Best evidence of past Festival obsession yields a profusion of tickets—but that person would need it least of all!
We want you to share your Festival bona fides. Have you been to all nine Festivals? Did you stand in line for two hours to get the chance to meet Alice Munro? What’s your favorite Festival memory?
The Festival staff will review all the comments posted by September 30th and announce the most die-hard Festival fan on [the New Yorker Festival blog]. The winner will receive a specially curated batch of tickets for two to this year’s Festival.
More details here.
I don’t have any good stories of obsession, I had attended a half-dozen events or so over the years, but recently I’ve been comped. (But wait: My Festival tattoo makes me a shoo-in….)
The Wavy Rule, a Daily Comic by Pollux: Love Happens in Rodanthe
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Festival Update: Stanley Tucci Event Added
Martin Schneider writes:
The New Yorker Festival has augmented its bounty by adding a new Saturday event. The endearingly plummy character actor (and native of Westchester County, which I did not know until I checked it on Wikipedia just now) has been an indelible presence in countless movies and should make for an excellent subject.
Saturday, October 17, 1 p.m. Acura at Stage37, at 508 West 37th Street. The price is $27.
Battle of the Cartoonists: the Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival Presents Witty Cartoons for Snobs
_Pollux writes_:
Matthew Diffee of _The New Yorker_ and The Steam Powered Hour will be hosting a special event: cartoonists from _The New Yorker_ and other publications will be competing in a Cartoon-Off!
Watch these cartoonists as they use their intellect and artistic skills as they take audience suggestions–it will be a battle of wits and quills!
The combatants will include Dan Piraro ( _Bizarro_ ), Emily Flake ( _Lulu Eightball, The New Yorker_ ), Drew Dernavich ( _The New Yorker_ ), Bill Plympton ( _The Village Voice_ , _Rolling Stone_ , and an Academy Award-nominated animator), Paul Noth ( _The New Yorker_ and _Pale Force_ creator), and David Sipress ( _The New Yorker_ ).
Two expert banjo players, Noam Pikelny and Tony Trischka, will be providing the music as the sparks and ink fly.
The event will take place on:
**Sunday, September 20th**
**5:30 pm**
**Union Hall, Brooklyn, New York**
Tickets are **$10.00**
For tickets, please click “here.”:http://www.unionhallny.com/calendar.php
Too Early for Pointless Nobel Predictions?
Jonathan Taylor writes:
My normally flatline sense of anticipation the Nobel Prize for Literature is a bit aroused this year, since I’m grateful, as an admittedly insular American, to have been introduced to J.M.G. Le Clézio last year.
The Nobel Committee has set dates for the announcement of the other prizes, beginning October 5. “According to tradition, the Swedish Academy will set the date for its announcement of the Nobel Prize in Literature later.” (It’s typically a Thursday.)
Anybody have an interesting line on this year’s possibilities? Or, better yet, flights of fancy on the glorious impossibilities?
The Wavy Rule, a Daily Comic by Pollux: Terminal-ology
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The Wavy Rule, a Daily Comic by Pollux: Out of Order
“You lie!” yeller Joe Wilson denigrated himself, the Congress, the level of debate in this country, and this country as a whole when he broke decorum with his
yawp.
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The “Mad Men” Files: Our Top Man
Martin Schneider writes:
I didn’t find anything juicy from The New Yorker this week, but a minor scoop relating to the fruits of Mad Men‘s research team (whoever they are).
When Betty Draper is at the hospital, she clamors for her own obstetrician, Dr. Aldrich. The suitably stern nurse (it is 1963 after all) assures her that while her own doctor may be living it up in New York City, Betsy will receive the treatment of Dr. Mendelowitz, “our top man!”
According to my friend Seth Davis, a native of the Westchester village of Croton-on-Hudson, New York, there really was a noted obstetrician named Mendelowitz in the area during that time—and he is still alive and well and living a couple towns away from Ossining, in Tarrytown! (Seth relates that the good doctor was reportedly delighted by the shout-out.)
Not only that, but Dr. Mendelowitz has two sons, both of whom are practicing obstetricians in the area—one of them delivered one of Seth’s sons, while the other delivered Seth’s other son!
Considering I’m friends with the entire Davis family, I’ve a lot to thank the Drs. Mendelowitz for.