Show Description:

The New Yorker Festival, a three-day congregation of writers, artists, thinkers, strategists, and performers, returns for its ninth year, from October 3rd through October 5th. Taking place a month before the Presidential election, this year?s Festival will feature incisive political programming and a weekend-long voter-registration drive, along with participants from across disciplines and continents. Last years 2007 Festival included: Seymour M. Hersh talks with David Remnick; Steve Martin talks with Susan Morrison; Salman Rushidie and Orhan Pamuk discuss the idea of "Homeland" with Deborah Treisman; David Belle, the creator of parlour, demonstrates his sport and discusses it with Alex Wilkinson; Errol Morris talks with Philip Gourevitch about Abu Ghraib, the subject of Morris's forthcoming film; a conversation between Martin Amis and Ian Buruma, with the New Yorker staff writer Bill Buford; a conversation between Judd Apatow and Seth Rogen, with the New Yorker film critic David Denby.