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  1. sex scenes
    Sex Between the Pages at The New Yorker Festival“I used to know that [sex scenes] were good if I turned myself on while I was writing them. … now that doesn’t happen as much.”
    By Brandon Sanchez
  2. new yorker festival 2019
    Nothing Can Get in the Way of Patti Smith Performing ‘People Have the Power’“Wait, I forgot to sing, that’s okay! Come on people, get up!”
    By Justin Curto
  3. new yorker festival
    Jordan Peele and Donald Glover Almost Starred in Sorry to Bother YouBut Get Out and Solo got in the way.
    By Hunter Harris
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    Kelela Describes Asserting Herself as a Black Woman in the Music Industry“There’s so many ways I have to assert myself.”
    By Hunter Harris
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    Rachel Bloom Calls Out the ‘Male Condescension’ of Family GuyBut she’s not offended.
    By Trupti Rami
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    John Mulaney Doesn’t Understand Why Brett Kavanaugh Brags About High School“That’s the sign of a demented person.”
    By Devon Ivie
  7. new yorker festival
    Mike Birbiglia Doesn’t Think ‘Just Having White Dudes’ in Comedy Is GoodAudience member Judd Apatow also had something to say.
    By Anne Victoria Clark
  8. new yorker festival
    Jim Carrey Received a Very Bad Omen Right Before His SNL Audition“I went, that’s not probably a good sign.”
    By Trupti Rami
  9. new yorker festival
    Maggie Gyllenhaal Details Her Adaptation of Elena Ferrante’s The Lost DaughterShe doesn’t plan to act in the film.
    By Trupti Rami
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    Bo Burnham Says Trump ‘Learned Everything’ from His Comedy Central RoastHe also gives a firm thumbs down to Our Cartoon President.
    By Anne Victoria Clark
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    Jimmy Fallon Fondly Recalls NBC Not Wanting Him for Late NightAlso, how NBC didn’t want the Roots, because they were too “urban.”
    By Devon Ivie
  12. new yorker festival
    Bo Burnham Wants to ‘Tear Down’ Those ‘Masculine Bullsh*t’ Comedy Clubs“They’re from the goddamn ‘80s.”
    By Anne Victoria Clark
  13. new yorker festival
    Patton Oswalt Explains Why His Veep Character Is ‘Problematic’ NowTeddy groping Jonah plays quite differently in 2018.
    By Tolly Wright
  14. new yorker festival 2018
    Jack Antonoff Says What’s Going on With Kanye West Right Now ‘Hurts’“People who on a gut level let you down in a way that you never thought possible.”
    By Trupti Rami
  15. work
    I Refused to Write Steve Bannon’s Bio for The New Yorker FestivalIt’s the only time I’ve ever said no to a task at work.
    By Hilary Leichter
  16. twitter
    New Yorker Fest Cancels Steve Bannon After Apatow, Mulaney, and Others Pull OutThe growing list of cancellations has apparently forced the magazine’s hand.
    By Anne Victoria Clark
  17. new yorker festival 2017
    Ava DuVernay Is Not Sure If You’re Going to Like A Wrinkle in Time“You’re seeing worlds being built from the point of view of a black woman from Compton.”
    By Trupti Rami
  18. new yorker festival
    Women in Hollywood Would Always Say ‘Ick’ When Harvey Weinstein’s Name Came UpOr ugh.
    By Rozanne Els
  19. new yorker festival
    An American Horror Story Episode Was Reedited After the Las Vegas Shooting“Someone who was affected might watch that and it could trigger something.”
    By Rozanne Els
  20. new yorker festival
    Ryan Murphy Has a Sex and the City 3 Solution: Recast SamanthaOr just do one where she’s dead.
    By Rozanne Els
  21. new yorker festival 2017
    Jerry Seinfeld Admits He ‘Sometimes’ Regrets the Seinfeld Finale“There was a lot of pressure on us at that time to do one big last show, but big is always bad in comedy.”
    By Corinna Burford
  22. new yorker festival 2016
    Daniel Craig Doesn’t Seem Ready to Quit Being James Bond“If I were to stop doing it, I would miss it terribly.”
    By Nate Jones
  23. new yorker festival
    Julianna Margulies: No Feud With Archie PanjabiAnd the split-screen final scene was totally cool.
    By Devon Ivie
  24. new yorker festival
    Diddy Always Has $100 in Cash When Mark Ronson Needs It“Take the f*cking $100.”
    By Marcus Jones
  25. new yorker festival
    Maron Finally Asks Lorne About His SNL AuditionWhen he tapes an interview for the podcast this week.
    By Marcus Jones
  26. new yorker festival
    Lin-Manuel Miranda Wants To Film Hamilton [Updated]Plus, a cut rap battle from the show and a possible collaboration with Junot Díaz.
    By Eric King
  27. new yorker festival
    Patti Smith on Next Books, Acid, and RimbaudFalling in love with Rimbaud is never a good idea.
    By Stephanie Eckardt
  28. party lines
    Ellie Kemper Thinks Kimmy Schmidt Would Fit in Well in GreenpointNobody bats an eye at the character’s outfits because “everybody there dresses like that.”
    By Claire McCartney
  29. new yorker festival
    4 Decades Later, Billy Joel Still Isn’t Sick of Playing ‘Piano Man’But he doesn’t feel the same way about all of his hits.
    By Katie Levingston
  30. party lines
    Sigourney Weaver on Talking to Ronald Reagan About Abortion RightsHe didn’t want to chat.
    By Audrey J. Bruno
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    Jesse Eisenberg May Stalk You, But He Won’t Get Stoned With YouAlso, he had fun turning the cartoony villain Lex Luthor into a scary reality.
    By Katie Levingston
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    The Story Behind Jason Segel’s Dracula Puppet MusicalIt was a weed-powered attempt at stardom long before Forgetting Sarah Marshall.
    By Devon Ivie
  33. new yorker festival
    Reggie Watts Would Like You To Stop Touching His Fabulous HairDrunk women apparently just can’t resist.
    By Devon Ivie
  34. new yorker festival
    Sleater-Kinney on Riot Grrl, Reuniting, and Portlandia10 things we learned from their New Yorker Festival panel.
    By Jenni Miller
  35. new yorker festival
    Junot Díaz Can’t Stand Trump’s Immigration Talk“America is as addicted to immigrants as it is addicted to cocaine; you withdraw immigrants from this country, America would just be a shivery, shitting-itself wreck.”
    By Katie Levingston
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    Don DeLillo on Gun Violence, New York Life, and WritingThe acclaimed writer discussed violence in real life as well as his work.
    By Katie Levingston
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    Toni Morrison Has Some Words for the New York TimesThe iconic novelist takes issue with what she calls the media’s “manipulation” of words and language.
    By Eric King
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    11 Things We Learned at the New Yorker Festival’s Broad City PanelThe stars of Broad City are just like us: They think New York is hard, get nervous around Maggie Gyllenhaal, and smoke “pussy weed.”
    By Jenni Miller
  39. new yorker festival
    Haim Wants to Bring Back Lilith FairImagine a music festival where Taylor Swift, Lorde, Florence and the Machine, Savages, and Chvrches all performed…
    By Claire McCartney
  40. Foodievents
    A Dispatch From Calvin Trillin’s Always-Spectacular ‘NewStops included Bánh Mì Saigon Bakery and Murray’s Cheese.
    By Sierra Tishgart
  41. our casual dysmorphia
    No One Feels Bad About Lena Dunham’s ThighsPhew. 
    By Kat Stoeffel
  42. bons mots
    Bob Dylan Is David Remnick’s White WhaleBob Dylan is really not interested in doing the ‘New Yorker’ Festival.
    By Bennett Marcus
  43. party lines
    Tilda, Schwartzman, and Karen O at NYer Festival“And my boyfriend is going to be the quarterback, and he’s British, so he doesn’t even know what that means.”
    By Jada Yuan
  44. Walking Tour
    Calvin Trillin on His Chinatown Stand-bys, and Sarah ‘Tic-Tac-ToeHe led a lucky group on his annual tour of Chinatown and the Lower East Side yesterday.
    By Alexandra Peers
  45. last night’s gig
    David Milch Headlines Most Uncomfortable Panel Discussion Ever at ‘New Yorker’ FestThe fun started about twenty minutes in when Milch leaned forward and said, “It’s about to become real uncomfortable, real fast.”
  46. last night’s gig
    Sasha Frere-Jones and Diplo Frighten Old PeopleIt’s really unlikely that Sasha Frere-Jones meant to distress the large number of old people who found themselves, befuddlingly, at Hiro Ballroom on Friday night for his New Yorker Dance Party. But he did anyway.