The New Yorker Brought to Life: New Yorker Festival 2009
The New Yorker, August 2, 1999. Mankoff will be teaching a Master Class in Cartooning at this year's New Yorker Festival.
Tickets are going on sale tomorrow, September 18 at 12 noon ET for this year’s New Yorker Festival, to be held October 16, 17, and 18 in various locales throughout New York City. This year’s lineup, offering talks by James Surowiecki and Malcolm Gladwell, readings from Junot Diaz and Mary Gaitskill, and a special musical performance from Brooklyn bands (including the Dirty Projectors), is sure to impress the most enthusiastic New Yorker devotee. New Yorker cartoon junkies shouldn’t miss out on Robert Mankoff’s Master Class in Cartooning and David Owen’s interview with one of the magazine’s best-loved cartoonists, George Booth. See the entire Festival schedule here.
Visit www.newyorker.com/festival or call 1-800-440-6974 tomorrow at noon to buy tickets. As always, the most popular Festival events are expected to sell out online in record time, but if you don’t get your picks, try going to Festival Headquarters on the afternoon of the first day of the festival, or buying tickets at the door for most events.
