Tuesday Night Live:
Susan Morrison and Daniel Zalewski on SNL, The New Yorker, and more
This was a year for anniversaries: Saturday Night Live turned 50, and The New Yorker celebrated its first century. To mark the occasion, Working Loose and Word, the Blue Hill literary arts festival, will host a conversation between two New Yorker editors, one of whom has written the definitive biography of SNL founder Lorne Michaels.
At 7 p.m. on Tuesday, July 29, at Working Loose, Susan Morrison, New Yorker articles editor and author of Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live, will be interviewed by New Yorker executive editor Daniel Zalewski.
Lorne came out in February and instantly became a New York Times bestseller. According to the show-biz periodical Variety, “Readers are treated to the Holy Grail for any journalist hoping to crack the show: a warts-and-all week in the life of SNL, where Morrison gets to see the real process of putting the thing together.”
Before joining The New Yorker, Morrison was editor in chief of the New York Observer and an original editor of SPY magazine. Zalewski was an editor at The New York Times Magazine and Lingua Franca before becoming The New Yorker’s features editor.
Information: wordfestival.org or 374-5632.