”We will not cross the picket line and attend the festival unless the New Yorker leadership agrees to the union’s demands,” Ocasio-Cortez and Warren write. ”They should do so immediately.”
The 2019 New Yorker Festival was this weekend, and among the many artists, writers, comedians, filmmakers and politicians who appeared for talks/performances was Florence Welch who talked with The New Yorker's Jonathan Seabrook on Friday at N.Y. Society for Ethical Culture...
The 2019 edition of the New Yorker Festival happens October 11 - 13 and also includes Liz Phair, Rob Delaney, Bill Nye, Hasan Minhaj, Paul Rudd, John Cameron Mitchell, Dua Lipa, Sarah Silverman and more.
”The reason for my acceptance was simple: I would be facing one of the most fearless journalists of his generation,” Mr. Bannon said in a statement to ’The New York Times.’ ”In what I would call a defining moment, David Remnick showed he was gutless when confronted by the howling online mob.”
New Yorker publisher David Remnick announced he'd "changed his mind" about the headlining interview in a memo to staff, following backlash and Judd Apatow, John Mulaney, Jack Antonoff, Patton Oswalt, and Jim Carey dropping off the lineup.