The New Yorker Festival

The 10th annual New Yorker Festival will be taking place from October 16th-18th this year in New York City showcasing a variety of authors, actors, directors, politicians, and musicians through Q&A’s, readings and concerts. Some particularly interesting events include:

A reading by Edwidge Danticat (who’s short story collection Krik?Krak! was a previous OLC selection) and Junot Díaz

A Q&A with Madea himself (and director of last weekend’s #1 film I CAN DO BAD ALL BY MYSELF), Tyler Perry.

And an advance screening of "Precious", our November selection, followed by a panel featuring the Director, Lee Daniels and the author, Sapphire.