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 s

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