Meanwhile, At The New Yorker Festival
Lots of coolness from the usual suspects and then some. Full run-down here; some of my particular favorites:
- Talking about New York with Mad Men creator Matt Weiner
- Adopting novels for the screen, with Sapphire and Kalefah Sanneh
- Neko Case talking with Sasha Frere-Jones:
“If I was a musician who only made music from my publishing, I’d be so fucking poor.”
- Donald Antrim, A. M. Homes, George Saunders, and Gary Shteyngart defining heroes vs. anti-heroes with Cressida Leyshon:
The guy at my gym who wears spandex but doesn’t care what people think: Hero
The guy who wears an Insane Clown Posse t-shirt at my gym: Anti-hero - Simon Schama being awesome
- Jhumpa Lahiri being as smart and beloved by the crowd as you’d imagine:
“Writing is a fragile, difficult, strange pursuit that has to exist outside all other normal life expectations. Somehow for a writer, it does exist; but this very easily could not have happened for me.”
