The dust has settled, and the wide reach of another successful Festival has been registered in the only place that really matters, little differently colored words that you can click on.
“A Party of One”:http://katemalay.wordpress.com/2008/10/08/october-2008-new-yorker-festival/ on the whole weekend
“Places to Go, People to Meet”:http://placestogo-manomi.blogspot.com/2008/10/first-stop-nyc.html on the whole weekend
“I Love New York”:http://iheartmanhattan.blogspot.com/2008/10/supermom.html on the whole weekend, with SuperMom cameo (I love this post)
“Con C De Arte”:http://concdearte.blogspot.com/2008/10/new-yorker-festival.html on the whole weekend (in Spanish!)
“_The Oregonian_”:http://blog.oregonlive.com/books/2008/10/new_yorker_festival_is_highbro.html seems impressed with the Festival
“Eat the Press”:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/09/emnew-yorkerem-fest-polit_n_133192.html on the political humor panel
“Eat the Press”:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/09/the-campaign-trail-nouns_n_133190.html on the campaign trail
“Eat the Press”:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/07/post_171_n_132602.html on the poltiical reporting panel
“Eat the Press”:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/06/donna-brazile-dont-ever-p_n_132007.html on the political strategy panel
“Eat the Press”:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/06/stephen-colbert-at-the-em_n_132019.html on Stephen Colbert
“Back of the Room”:http://backoftheroom.wordpress.com/2008/10/05/stephen-colbert-at-the-new-yorker-festival/ on Stephen Colbert
“Citizen Sugar”:http://www.citizensugar.com/2293686 on Stephen Colbert
“The Geek Prospectus”:http://geekprospectus.blogspot.com/2008/10/thoughts-on-new-yorker-festival-comics.html on Stephen Colbert and Art Spiegelman
“If Liz Were Queen”:http://iflizwerequeen.com/?p=808 on Donna Brazile (this event probably got the most “reaction”:http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?q=%22donna%20brazile%22%20%22new%20yorker%20festival%22&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&sa=N&tab=wb in the blogosphere)
“Jezebel”:http://jezebel.com/5059749/elizabeth-edwards-i-think-we-have-the-capacity-with-great-leadership-to-change-things on Elizabeth Edwards
“Benny’s World”:http://bennycat.blogspot.com/2008/10/elizabeth-edwards-refuge-is-passion-for.html on Elizabeth Edwards
“Irish Voice”:http://www.irishabroad.com/news/irish-voice/entertainment/Articles/new-york-festival101008.aspx on Roddy Doyle and Anne Enright
“_Paper Magazine_”:http://www.papermag.com/blogs/2008/10/the_new_yorker_festivals_next.php on the “Next Generation in Fashion” panel
“Stilettos on Cobblestone”:http://stilettosoncobblestone.blogspot.com/2008/10/new-yorker-festival-next-generation-of.html on the “Next Generation in Fashion” panel
Emdashes friend “Newyorkette”:http://newyorkette.com/2008/10/04/caj-at-the-new-yorker-festival-plus-before-and-after-pics/ at the Festival
“Joe Trippi”:http://joetrippi.com/blog/?p=2510 on the political strategy panel that he was on
“Ta-Nehisi Coates”:http://ta-nehisicoates.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/10/if_you_shoot_you_aint_the_real_pretty_tone.php on the political reporting panel that he was on (nice moment involving Remnick too)
“The Apiary”:http://www.theapiary.org/archives/2008/10/the_new_yorker.html on the political humor panel
“Francsesco Explains It All”:http://francescoexplainsitall.blogspot.com/2008/10/sarah-and-dina-hit-town.html on the political humor panel
“The Litter in Littérateur”:http://www.rickyopaterny.com/blog/2008/10/09/donna-brazile-from-the-new-yorker-festival/ on the political strategy panel
“Straight Chuter”:http://www.straightchuter.com/2008/10/trip-report-new-yorker-festival-nyc/ on Lynne Cox and Greg Child (and a few other events)
“Gawker”:http://gawker.com/5059425/peggy-noonan-at-the-new-yorker-festival-kind-of-embarrassing twits Peggy Noonan
“Dancing Perfectly Free”:http://dancingperfectlyfree.com/2008/10/05/ratmansky-at-the-new-yorker-festival/ on Alexei Ratmansky
“Elizabeth Reed”:http://www.aaaah.org/comment_on_alexei_ratmansky_at_the_new_yorker_festival_by_elizabeth_reed.html on Alexei Ratmansky
“The One Ring”:http://www.theonering.net/torwp/2008/10/16/30296-guillermo-del-toro-i%E2%80%99m-so-voracious-about-the-hobbit/, “obsessively”:http://www.theonering.net/torwp/2008/10/20/30314-del-toro-interview-part-2-this-is-the-hardest-movie-i%E2%80%99ll-probably-ever-do/, on Guillermo del Toro
“Newley Purnell”:http://newley.com/2008/10/05/elmore-leonard-on-writing-and-new-yorker-stories/ quotes a pithy Elmore Leonard nugget
“Matthew Klam’s sister”:http://julieklam.wordpress.com/2008/09/12/the-new-yorker-festival-with-matthew-klam-elmore-leonard-and-joyce-carol-oates/ is excited
“Politics and Prose”:http://politics-and-prose.blogspot.com/2008/10/new-yorker-festival-i-american-dream.html on Jeffrey Eugenides and Jhumpa Lahiri
“Ivy Gate”:http://www.ivygateblog.com/2008/10/the-american-dream-brought-to-you-by-the-new-yorker/ on the American Dream
“Blah Blog Blah”:http://mingum.blogspot.com/2008/10/new-yorker-festival-part-one.html on the American Dream
“Blah Blog Blah”:http://mingum.blogspot.com/2008/10/new-yorker-festival-parts-two-and-three.html on Ian Frazier and Mark Singer
“You: On My Blog”:http://youonmyblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/post-in-which-i-post-massive-amounts-of.html engages in a bit of namedropping
“BizBash”:http://www.bizbash.com/newyork/content/editorial/e12951.php disliked the corporate tone of the weekend
“Your Blog About Town”:http://thelmagazine.com/lmag_blog/blog/post__10070804.cfm on Alice Munro
“City Life and the Social Worker”:http://stevetm.com/2008/10/take-this-down-new-yorker-fest/ on the Town Hall
“D.B. Burroughs”:http://dbborroughs.livejournal.com/2458286.html on Clint Eastwood and the Young Shakespearians
“MegExpressions”:http://megexpressions.blogspot.com/2008/10/new-yorker-festival.html on the political strategy forum and the Young Shakespeareans
“Irish Stage in NYC”:http://irishstagenyc.blogspot.com/2008/10/liberal-media-elite-presents-unfiltered.html on Seamus Heaney
“Lodge Porch”:http://www.lodgeporch.com/2008/10/sen-chuck-hagel-at-new-yorker-festival.html on Chuck Hagel
“The Autograph News”:http://theautographnews.com/2008/10/20/matt-groening-gets-animated-while-sketching-the-simpsons/ has footage of Matt Groening … signing his name.
“The Village Voice”:http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/archives/2008/10/pulp_fictions_l.php on Lynda Barry and Matt Groening
“Tim’s Family Journal”:http://timkau.blogspot.com/2008/10/grace-and-her-boyfriend-paul-rudd.html on Paul Rudd
“Carpathian Kitten Loss”:http://kittenloss.blogspot.com/2008/10/that-pig-has-some-powerful-friends.html on Paul Rudd (with excellent picture)
“Sequenza21”:http://www.sequenza21.com/2008/10/meet-press.html on Dawn Upshaw (with encouraging anecdote about Festival press tickets)
“Celebrity Baby Blog”:http://www.celebrity-babies.com/2008/10/for-mary-louise.html on Mary-Louise Parker (more interesting than you might expect)
“FOX News”:http://onthescene.blogs.foxnews.com/2008/10/21/an-evening-with-oliver-stone/ (yes) on Oliver Stone
“Rundagerously”:http://rundangerously.blogspot.com/2008/10/haruki-murakami-running-novelist-at-new.html on Murakami (with prominent Emdashes plug)
“_NY Times_”:http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/06/nyregion/06trillin.html on Calvin Trillin, “Come Hungry”