Wednesday, September 6, 2017

Chelsea Manning Will Headline Politically-Charged New Yorker Festival



The 2017 New Yorker Festival comes to venues across the city next month, bringing with it a diverse lineup of "talks" (and a few performances) from cultural and political luminaries like Chelsea Manning, Kumail Nanjiani, Carly Rae Jepsen, and Ava DuVernay.

The annual three-day gathering skews more political than previous festivals, according to New Yorker Editor David Remnick, with the addition of voices like former U.S. attorney for Manhattan turned podcaster Preet Bharara and Senator Al Franken. There's also be a panel called "All The President's Reporters," where a host of reporters from the Times, the Washington Post, and the New Yorker will discuss covering national politics.

"I don’t think it would be possible for us to have a New Yorker Festival that wasn’t political, considering what an intensely political time we’ve been living in,” Remnick told the Times. “I think we’re living in a unique moment of emergency.”

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Source: Gothamist (via The Empire Report) 

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