Ready, Set…

Emily Gordon: …go forth into the New Yorker-ness of it all! Here’s the lineup—the sparkliest bunch of people I’ve ever been around in the course in one weekend, except maybe for the Saturday Night Live cast party my friend Scott, a tall short-filmmaker, took me to a number of years ago. The place was lousy with Jerrys and Claires and Leos and their ilk, and that night I thought, Well, I can safely move to Scotland now; I’ve seen enough celebrities to last me forever. What I didn’t understand at the time was that I had to wait just a little bit longer so that—and I’m sorry to spoil the surprise—Mikhail Baryshnikov and I could finally elope and defect. To Scotland. It’s very romantic and although I’ll be giving up my American citizenship and my tap shoes, I think, for Misha and freedom, it’s worth it.

I’m enjoying your Q&A questions, so keep sending ’em. Tomorrow night: live blogging! You’ll feel exactly as though you’re there; it’s like reality TV without the unbalanced drunks in the hot tub. In case you were wondering if I know how lucky I am to be doing all this, yeah. Totally.

Friday events:

Chang-rae Lee and Lorrie Moore
7 P.M. Satalla

Zadie Smith and Jonathan Franzen
9:30 P.M. Directors Guild of America

Saturday events:

Mikhail Baryshnikov interviewed by Joan Acocella
The lead dancer.
1 P.M. 37 Arts

John Updike interviewed by David Remnick
A life in literature.
4 P.M. Celeste Bartos Forum
The New York Public Library

Saturday night events:

Tony Ellis, Earl Scruggs, Pete Wernick, and Charles Wood talk with Steve Martin: A Conversation with Music
The great American banjo.
7 P.M. Directors Guild of America

Cartoonists Unleashed: A Variety Show
Pat Byrnes, Leo Cullum, Matthew Diffee, Mort Gerberg, Alex Gregory, Marshall Hopkins, Edward Koren, Arnie Levin, Eric Lewis, Robert Mankoff, Marissa Acocella Marchetto, Victoria Roberts, Danny Shanahan, David Sipress, Barbara Smaller, Mick Stevens, Mike Twohy, Gahan Wilson, Jack Ziegler, and more. Conceived by Matthew Diffee and hosted by Andy Borowitz.
10 P.M. Ailey Studios

Sunday events:

Sunday Family Movie: “Wallace & Gromit—The Curse of the Were-Rabbit”
The New Yorker presents a special preview screening of DreamWorks Animation SKG and Aardman Features’ “Wallace & Gromit—The Curse of the Were-Rabbit.” A discussion between Nick Park and Hendrik Hertzberg will follow.
1 P.M. Directors Guild of America

A Humor Revue:

With Noah Baumbach, Andy Borowitz, Larry Doyle, Nancy Franklin, Frank Gannon, Anthony Lane, Patricia Marx, Bruce McCall, Rebecca Mead, David Owen, Paul Rudnick, George Saunders, Paul Simms, and Mark Singer, all of whom will read selections from their own work. David Remnick, the editor of The New Yorker, hosts the event.

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