Bruce McCall (1935–2023)
New Yorker Festival poster, 2001
Annie Proulx papers, Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature
The New Yorker Festival
In 1999, New Yorker staffer Rhonda Sherman approached David Remnick with a big idea: as Sherman put it, an “action-packed, caffeinated” literary festival. Just as early issues of the magazine took the city as its inspiration, so did the New Yorker Festival. The inaugural event in May 2000 featured poetry readings in Central Park; a glitzy kick-off party with literary stars like Stephen King, Salman Rushdie, and Zadie Smith attending; an exhibition of cartoons on the shuttle between Times Square and Grand Central; and tours of the city’s architecture. Bruce McCall’s poster for the 2001 festival sets the event among the skyscrapers of Manhattan.
: Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature
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