new yorker festival

The New Yorker Festival: Medical Breakthroughs: The New Frontier

• ORIGINAL (1 hr and 31 mins)
• By J. Michael Bishop, Daniel Callahan, Eric Kandel, and others
• Narrated By Atul Gawande

This panel discussion on medical breakthroughs was recorded live at the 2006 New Yorker Festival in New York City.

The New Yorker Festival: Master Class in Criticism

• ORIGINAL (1 hr and 32 mins)
• By Hilton Als, Anthony Lane

This master class in criticism was recorded live at the 2006 New Yorker Festival in New York City.

The New Yorker Festival - Richard Dawkins: Disciple of Darwin

• ORIGINAL (1 hr and 22 mins)
• By Richard Dawkins
• Narrated By Henry Finder

Richard Dawkins holds the Charles Simonyi Chair of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford. His books include the best-selling The Selfish Gene, The Blind Watchmaker, Climbing Mount Improbable, The Ancestor's Tale, and A Devil's Chaplain, a collection of essays. He has received the International Cosmos Prize and the Kistler Prize.

The New Yorker Festival - Master Class in Humor Writing

• ORIGINAL (1 hr and 35 mins)
• By Andy Borowitz, Bruce McCall

Andy Borowitz's books include Who Moved My Soap?: The CEO's Guide to Surviving in Prison, The Trillionaire Next Door: The Greedy Investor's Guide to Day Trading, Governor Arnold: A Photodiary of His First 100 Days in Office, and The Borowitz Report: The Big Book of Shockers. His Web site, Borowitzreport.com, has won five About.com Political Dot-Comedy Awards. He has been contributing humor pieces to The New Yorker since 1998.

The New Yorker Festival - American Obsession with Precociousness

• ORIGINAL (1 hr and 27 mins)
• By Malcolm Gladwell

Malcolm Gladwell has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1996. He is the author of The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference and Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, which was published this year. Both books grew out of articles that first appeared in the magazine. Mr. Gladwell will discuss other works in progress as well.

The New Yorker Festival: Garry Kasparov interviewed by David Remnick

• ORIGINAL (1 hr and 29 mins)
• By Garry Kasparov
• Narrated By David Remnick

This interview was recorded live at the 2006 New Yorker Festival in New York City.

The New Yorker Festival: Zadie Smith: How to Fail Better

• ORIGINAL (1 hr and 20 mins)
• By Zadie Smith

This event was recorded live at the 2006 New Yorker Festival in New York City.

The New Yorker Festival - Annie Proulx and Richard Ford

• ORIGINAL (1 hr and 37 mins)
• By Annie Proulx, Richard Ford

Annie Proulx's books include the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Shipping News and the story collections Bad Dirt and Wyoming Stories. A story from that collection, "Brokeback Mountain", which first appeared in The New Yorker, has been made into a feature film directed by Ang Lee; it premieres in December. She is at work on a memoir about building a house on what will become an avian preserve.

The New Yorker Festival - John Lahr and Sir Richard Eyre

• ORIGINAL (1 hr and 27 mins)
• By John Lahr, Sir Richard Eyre

Sir Richard Eyre was the artistic director of the Royal National Theatre in London from 1988 to 1997. He produced more than a hundred plays, including Guys & Dolls, Futurists, The Invention of Love, Richard III, and King Lear, and won numerous awards for his work. Several of his London productions also had Broadway runs, including Skylight, The Crucible, Vincent in Brixton, and Amy's View.

The New Yorker Festival - Edward P. Jones and Marilynne Robinson

• ORIGINAL (1 hr and 31 mins)
• By Edward P. Jones, Marilynne Robinson

Edward P. Jones's first book, the story collection Lost in the City, won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. Marilynne Robinson made her literary debut in 1981 with the novel Housekeeping, which received a Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.

The New Yorker Festival - Anarchy and Animation: Cartoon Chaos Theory

• ORIGINAL (1 hr and 21 mins)
• By Brad Bird, Trey Parker, Matt Stone, and others
• Narrated By Tad Friend

Brad Bird is a director at Pixar Animation Studios and the writer and director of the Academy Award-winning animated feature The Incredibles. He also wrote and directed The Iron Giant and served as executive consultant on the TV series The Simpsons and King of the Hill. He completed his first animated film at the age of 14.

The New Yorker Festival: Tom Stoppard Interviewed by John Lahr

• ORIGINAL (1 hr and 29 mins)
• By Tom Stoppard
• Narrated By John Lahr

This interview was recorded live at the 2006 New Yorker Festival in New York City.

The New Yorker Festival: The Incredible: A Conversation Between George Saunders and Jonathan Safran Foer

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 22 mins)
• By The New Yorker

Recorded live at the 2007 New Yorker Festival in New York City.

George Saunders is the author of the story collections CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, Pastoralia, and In Persuasion Nation; an illustrated novella, The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil; and a children's book, The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip. The Braindead Megaphone, a collection of his essays, many of which first appeared in The New Yorker, was released in September 2007.

The New Yorker Festival - The Middle East Conflict

• ORIGINAL (1 hr and 36 mins)
• By Rashid Khalidi, Benny Morris, Ari Shavit, and others
• Narrated By Jeffrey Goldberg

Jeffrey Goldberg joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 2000. His piece "The Great Terror", about the Iraqi use of chemical and biological weapons against the Kurdish population, won the Overseas Press Club Award for human-rights journalism. "In the Party of God", about the terrorist organization Hezbollah, won the 2003 National Magazine Award for Reporting.

The New Yorker Festival: Jhumpa Lahiri and Edward P. Jones: Fiction Night: Readings

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 26 mins)
• By The New Yorker

Recorded live at the 2007 New Yorker Festival in New York City.

Jhumpa Lahiri was born in England to Bengali parents and emigrated to the United States as a child. She won a Pulitzer Prize for her debut story collection, Interpreter of Maladies, which included three stories that first appeared in The New Yorker. Her first novel, The Namesake, was published in 2003; a film adaptation by the director Mira Nair was released in 2007.

The New Yorker Festival: Ian McEwan: In Conversation with David Remnick

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 20 mins)
• By The New Yorker

Recorded live at the 2007 New Yorker Festival in New York City.

Ian McEwan's novels include The Child in Time, Enduring Love, Amsterdam, which won the Booker Prize for Fiction, and Atonement, which won the National Book Critics' Circle Fiction Award and has been made into a feature film.

The New Yorker Festival - Nicole Krauss and Ian McEwan

• ORIGINAL (1 hr and 36 mins)
• By Nicole Krauss, Ian McEwan

Nicole Krauss is the author of two novels, Man Walks Into a Room and The History of Love, which was published this year, and parts of which first appeared in The New Yorker. Ian McEwan's many books include the story collection First Love, Last Rites and the novels Amsterdam, which won the Booker Prize, and Atonement, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award.

The New Yorker Festival: Master Class in Editing

• ORIGINAL (1 hr and 22 mins)
• By Roger Angell, Dorothy Wickenden, Daniel Zalewski

This master class in editing was recorded live at the 2006 New Yorker Festival in New York City.

The New Yorker Festival - Political Rockers

• ORIGINAL (1 hr and 37 mins)
• By Carrie Brownstein, KRS-ONE, Krist Novoselic, and others
• Narrated By Sasha Frere-Jones

Sasha Frere-Jones became The New Yorker's pop-music critic in 2004. He is also a musician, and since 2003 has performed with the band the Sands. Previous to that, he performed with the band Ui. In 1998, he released Standing Upright on a Curve, a solo guitar album.