The New Yorker Festival
new yorker festival annual event organized new yorker magazine held venue around new york city typically early october bringing together whoswho art politics everything festival first held since become one buzziest cultural event year well biggest consumerfacing event magazine parent company condé nast reportedly tense moment festival former intelligence analyst chelsea manning interviewed new yorker staff writer larissa macfarquhar responded speculation information document shed shared wikileaks sensitive enough cause harm intelligence officer informant ongoing army operation new yorker announced steve bannon former chief executive donald trump presidential campaign former breitbart chief executive chairman would headliner year festival magazine editor david remnick initially defended invitation saying “every intention asking bannon difficult question engaging serious even combative conversation” severe backlash announcement star judd apatow jim carrey patton oswalt would participate festival bannon attended magazine editor uninvited bannon official website