What To Read

The New Yorker Festival is an annual autumn tradition in New York, an unrivaled cultural experience that brings together some of the world's most fascinating authors, artists, and critics live on stage. It’s not too late to get tickets to this year's festival events, which take place October 6-8.

Our friends at The New Yorker are offering a discount on select author panels just for Tertulia readers. Use the code TNYFTERTULIA20 in the registration links below to save 20% on select author events.

Grab a ticket while you can! Events are selling out quickly but you can join the waitlist for sold-out panels like Jhumpa Lahiri and Ling Ma's conversation with The New Yorker's Cressida Leyshon. We hope to see you there!

Make sure to get your reading in before the Q&A sessions. All books from New Yorker Festival talent featured here are on sale at Tertulia! Get 15% off through October 8 with code NYFEST.

Food for Thought

With Michael Pollan and Ariel Levy

"Eat Food. Not too much. Mostly plants." It's common wisdom now, but Michael Pollan was an influential force on our contemporary understanding of healthy and sustainable eating. He is the author of bestsellers This Is Your Mind on Plants, How to Change Your Mind, and The Omnivore’s Dilemma to name only a few. Catch him in conversation with Ariel Levy, a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of the best-selling memoir The Rules Do Not Apply.

➳ Tickets for Michael Pollan on Friday at 8:30

Rob Chast talks with Adam Gopnick

If you're a New Yorker reader, then you've surely smiled at and mused about Roz Chast's cartoons and covers, which have appeared in the magazine since 1978. Her new graphic narrative about dreams is coming out later this month. She'll be talking at the festival with New Yorker mainstay Adam Gopnick, whose most recent book explores the mystery of how we pursue and gain mastery.

➳ Tickets for Roz Chast on Saturday at 10am

Jonathan Lethem and Colson Whitehead talk with Deborah Treisman

Perfect timing! Jonathan Lethem, bard of Brooklyn, has another book coming out next week called Brooklyn Crime Novel that tells the captivating story of 50 years of community, crime and gentrification in his home borough. He, along with prolific lit star Colson Whitehead (fresh off the latest installment of his Harlem trilogy), will sit down with The New Yorker fiction editor Deborah Treisman.

➳ Tickets for Lethem, Colson & Treisman on Saturday at 12:30

Judy Blume and Curtis Sittenfeld talk with Naomi Fry

This year has brought us the Judy Blume Renaissance with the Emmy-nominated documentary “Judy Blume Forever” and “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret,” adapted from her iconic novel. But it's also brought the return of Curtis Sittenfeld with her seventh novel, Romantic Comedy, which was a Reese's Book Club pick. Catch them in conversation with The New Yorker culture critic Naomi Fri.

➳ Tickets for Blume, Sittenfeld and Fry on Saturday at 3pm

Emma Cline and Mary Gaitskill talk with Molly Fischer

Even if you don't keep up with the latest in new fiction, it was hard to miss Emma Cline's "it" book of the summer if you paid attention to the books popping up on the beach. She will be joined in conversation with staff writer Molly Fischer and novelist and master story writer Mary Gaitskill.

➳ Tickets for Cline, Gaitskill and Fischer on Saturday at 5:30pm

Lauren Groff and Jesmyn Ward talk with Parul Sehgal

Talk about an all-star panel. This one is a testament to The New Yorker's unique ability to convene the most influential artists of our time. Two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward, who releases her first historical novel later this month, will sit down in conversation with acclaimed novelist Lauren Groff, whose latest novel The Vaster Wilds is raking in rave reviews. Wunderkind literary critic Parul Sehgal will be on stage to moderate, making this a perfect literary trifecta.

➳ Tickets for Groff, Ward and Seghal on Sunday at 12:30pm

The full New Yorker Festival program is posted here.