"On October 25, 2025, the writers George Saunders and Zadie Smith took the stage with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman, for a discussion at the 26th annual New Yorker Festival, a weekend of conversations, screenings, performances, and more. The Festival, which is the magazine's signature event, was held in New York City and brought together leading voices in literature, film, comedy, television, politics, and medicine."
"George Saunders is the author of " Lincoln in the Bardo," which won the Man Booker Prize in 2017, and five collections of stories, including " Tenth of December," a finalist for the National Book Award, and the recent collection " Liberation Day." He is the host of the popular Substack blog Story Club, an outgrowth of his book on the Russian short story, " A Swim in a Pond in the Rain.""
On October 25, 2025, George Saunders and Zadie Smith took the stage with Deborah Treisman at the 26th annual New Yorker Festival. The Festival convened a weekend of conversations, screenings, performances, and more, bringing together leading voices in literature, film, comedy, television, politics, and medicine in New York City. George Saunders wrote Lincoln in the Bardo, won the 2017 Man Booker Prize, published multiple story collections including Tenth of December and Liberation Day, and runs the Substack blog Story Club inspired by A Swim in a Pond in the Rain. Zadie Smith wrote novels such as White Teeth, On Beauty, NW, Swing Time, and The Fraud, plus a novella, essay collections, short stories, and a Chaucer-adapted play. Deborah Treisman has served as The New Yorker's fiction editor since 2003, joined the magazine in 1997, hosts the New Yorker Fiction Podcast, and edits anthologies.
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