NYC: New Yorker Festival to include David Foster Wallace panel

There are a ton of fiction- and non-fiction related events as well, but we're leading with:

Rereading David Foster Wallace
Ad infinitum.
With Mark Costello, Mary Karr, Dana Spiotta, and Deborah Treisman.
Moderated by D. T. Max.
October 6, 4 P.M. Acura at SIR Stage37 • 508 West 37th Street ($30)

Mary Karr's inclusion is a confusing one to me. I'm sure she has insight into the man that the others don't, but I just hope after I die they don't invite my exes to comment on my literary legacy. (Hey literary executor, are you reading this?) 

Here are the Friday night "Fiction Night" panels: 

FICTION NIGHT / DISCUSSIONS AMONG WRITERS

Money
With Martin Amis, John Lanchester, and Zadie Smith.
Moderated by Deborah Treisman.
7 P.M. Directors Guild Theatre • 110 West 57th Street ($30)

Utopia / Dystopia
With Margaret Atwood, Jennifer Egan, and George Saunders.
Moderated by Daniel Zalewski.
7 P.M. Gramercy Theatre • 127 East 23rd Street ($30)

Cities
With Aleksandar Hemon, Hisham Matar, Colum McCann, and Orhan Pamuk.
Moderated by Willing Davidson.
7 P.M. MasterCard Stage at SVA Theatre 1 • 333 West 23rd Street ($30)

Faith
With Chris Adrian, Nathan Englander, and Marilynne Robinson.
Moderated by Cressida Leyshon.
7 P.M. MasterCard Stage at SVA Theatre 2 • 333 West 23rd Street ($30)

Love and Marriage
With Julian Barnes, Junot Díaz, and Lorrie Moore.
Moderated by Leo Carey.
9:30 P.M. Directors Guild Theatre • 110 West 57th Street ($30)

The Old Country
With Jonathan Safran Foer, Téa Obreht, and Gary Shteyngart.
Moderated by Adam Gopnik.
9:30 P.M. MasterCard Stage at SVA Theatre 1 • 333 West 23rd Street ($30)

Crisis
With Louise Erdrich, Joyce Carol Oates, and Paul Theroux.
Moderated by Peter Canby.
9:30 P.M. MasterCard Stage at SVA Theatre 2 • 333 West 23rd Street ($30)

And here are some other assorted panels featuring writers:

Presidential Biographers
How they governed.
With Ron Chernow, Annette Gordon-Reed, David Maraniss, and Edmund Morris.
Moderated by David Remnick.
October 6, 10 A.M. Directors Guild Theatre • 110 West 57th Street ($30)

Giving Voice
The have-nots.
With Abhijit Banerjee, Katherine Boo, Geoffrey Canada, and Jose Antonio Vargas.
Moderated by George Packer.
October 6, 10 A.M. MasterCard Stage at SVA Theatre 2 • 333 West 23rd Street ($30)

Alison Bechdel talks with Judith Thurman
Drawn from life.
October 6, 4 P.M. MasterCard Stage at SVA Theatre 2 • 333 West 23rd Street ($30)

Malcolm Gladwell / Birmingham: Fifty Years Later
October 6, 10 A.M. MasterCard Stage at SVA Theatre 1 • 333 West 23rd Street ($30)

Back to the Old Hotel
Mark Singer will host a tribute to the seminal New Yorker writer Joseph Mitchell, featuring a conversation with Ian Frazier and Nora Mitchell Sanborn and a reading by Bob Balaban.
Local oysters and champagne will be served.
October 7, 11 A.M. South Street Seaport Museum • 12 Fulton Street ($100)

Salman Rushdie talks with David Remnick
Under cover.
October 7, 4 P.M. MasterCard Stage at SVA Theatre 1 • 333 West 23rd Street ($30)

And this movie sneak preview might be of interest: 

"Cloud Atlas"
The U.S. première of the epic drama, followed by a conversation between Aleksandar Hemonand the film's writer-directors, Tom Tykwer and Andy and Lana Wachowski.
October 6, 7 P.M. MasterCard Stage at SVA Theatre 1 • 333 West 23rd Street ($50)