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ANTHONY LANE will lead a team in defense of felines. ADAM GOPNIK will lead a team in defense of canines.
DAVID REMNICK, the judge, will preside. Supporting arguments and readings from JILL ABRAMSON, BILL BERLONI, JERRY COYNE, JESSE EISENBERG, MALCOLM GLADWELL, ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ, ANTHONY HUTCHERSON, ARIEL LEVY, and JOYCE CAROL OATES. Cats and dogs will take the stand. May the best domestic animal win.
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Jill Abramson is the former executive editor of the New YorkTimes, the first woman to hold the position. She came to theTimes in 1997, having worked at the Wall Street Journal for nine years. She became the Washington editor in 1999, bureau chief in 2000, and managing editor in 2003. She is the author of “The Puppy Diaries” and the co-author, with Jane Mayer, of “Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas.” She is a visiting lecturer in the English department at Harvard for the 2014-15 academic year, teaching narrative nonfiction.
Bill Berloni discovered and trained the original Sandy for the first Broadway production of “Annie”; he has since trained every Sandy in every production of “Annie” on Broadway as well as Sandy in the new “Annie” film, which will be released in December. He has trained animals for numerous Broadway shows, including “Legally Blonde: The Musical” and “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,” and also for Off Broadway productions and national tours. In 2011, he received the Tony Honor for Excellence in the Theatre. He is the author of “Broadway Tails.”
Jerry Coyne is a professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Chicago and a member of both the Committee on Genetics and the Committee on Evolutionary Biology. His research focusses on the origins of new species. He has published more than a hundred papers in the academic press and more than a hundred articles, reviews, and columns in the mainstream press. He is the author of “Why Evolution Is True” and the co-author of “Speciation.”
Jesse Eisenberg is a writer and an Academy Award-nominated actor, who has appeared in the films “The Double,” “Night Moves,” “Now You See Me,” “The Social Network,” “Zombieland,” “Adventureland,” and “The Squid and the Whale.” He is currently shooting “Batman v Superman,” in which he plays Lex Luthor. He has written and starred in the plays “The Revisionist,” alongside Vanessa Redgrave, and “Asuncion.” He is a contributor to The New Yorker, the author of the forthcoming collection “Bream Gives Me Hiccups,” and a former foster parent for cats.
Malcolm Gladwell has been a staff writer at The New Yorkersince 1996. He is the author of the Times best-sellers “The Tipping Point,” “Blink,” and “Outliers,” as well as “David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants” and a collection of his New Yorker pieces, “What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures,” which contains his Profile of the “dog whisperer” Cesar Millan.
Alexandra Horowitz has been teaching psychology, animal behavior, and canine cognition at Barnard College since 2004. She has studied non-human cognition, especially in dogs; currently, she is testing the olfactory acuity of the domestic dog. She is the author of the Times best-seller “Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know” and “On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes.” Before her scientific career, she was on the staff of The New Yorker.
Anthony Hutcherson owns the Maryland-based JungleTrax Cattery. He is the chairman of the International Association’s Bengal Breed Committee and the former president of the International Bengal Cat Society and will contribute a column to Bengals Illustrated. He has been raising and showing Bengal cats—an exotic breed descended from the wild leopard cat/domestic cat hybrids—since 1993. He is writing a book, “Purrposeful Love,” about cat breeds, and developing a feline-focussed television show.
Ariel Levy joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 2008. She is working on a book based on her piece “Thanksgiving in Mongolia,” which won the 2014 National Magazine Award for Essays and Criticism. Her article “Living-Room Leopards” appears in “The Big New Yorker Book of Cats.”
Joyce Carol Oates has published numerous story collections and novels, including “Black Water,” “What I Lived For,” and “Blonde,” all of which were Pulitzer Prize finalists, and, most recently, “Carthage” and “High Crime Area: Tales of Darkness and Dread,” which were published this year. She has received the National Book Award for fiction and the National Humanities Medal, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Adam Gopnik has been writing for The New Yorker since 1986. His books include the essay collections “Paris to the Moon” and “Through the Children’s Gate”; the children’s novels “The King in the Window” and “The Steps Across the Water”; and a book about cooking and eating, “The Table Comes First: Family, France, and the Meaning of Food.” His personal-history piece “Dog Story” and his essay “A Note on Thurber’s Dogs” are included in “The Big New Yorker Book of Dogs.”
Anthony Lane has been a film critic for The New Yorker since 1993. In 2001, he received the National Magazine Award for Reviews and Criticism. He is the author of “Nobody’s Perfect,” a collection of his New Yorker reviews, essays, and Profiles. He wrote the foreword to “The Big New Yorker Book of Cats.”
David Remnick is the editor of The New Yorker.
(Please note: No pets allowed. Service animals specifically trained to aid a person with a disability are welcome.)
ANTHONY LANE will lead a team in defense of felines. ADAM GOPNIK will lead a team in defense of canines.
DAVID REMNICK, the judge, will preside. Supporting arguments and readings from JILL ABRAMSON, BILL BERLONI, JERRY COYNE, JESSE EISENBERG, MALCOLM GLADWELL, ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ, ANTHONY HUTCHERSON, ARIEL LEVY, and JOYCE CAROL OATES. Cats and dogs will take the stand. May the best domestic animal win.
....
Jill Abramson is the former executive editor of the New YorkTimes, the first woman to hold the position. She came to theTimes in 1997, having worked at the Wall Street Journal for nine years. She became the Washington editor in 1999, bureau chief in 2000, and managing editor in 2003. She is the author of “The Puppy Diaries” and the co-author, with Jane Mayer, of “Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas.” She is a visiting lecturer in the English department at Harvard for the 2014-15 academic year, teaching narrative nonfiction.
Bill Berloni discovered and trained the original Sandy for the first Broadway production of “Annie”; he has since trained every Sandy in every production of “Annie” on Broadway as well as Sandy in the new “Annie” film, which will be released in December. He has trained animals for numerous Broadway shows, including “Legally Blonde: The Musical” and “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,” and also for Off Broadway productions and national tours. In 2011, he received the Tony Honor for Excellence in the Theatre. He is the author of “Broadway Tails.”
Jerry Coyne is a professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Chicago and a member of both the Committee on Genetics and the Committee on Evolutionary Biology. His research focusses on the origins of new species. He has published more than a hundred papers in the academic press and more than a hundred articles, reviews, and columns in the mainstream press. He is the author of “Why Evolution Is True” and the co-author of “Speciation.”
Jesse Eisenberg is a writer and an Academy Award-nominated actor, who has appeared in the films “The Double,” “Night Moves,” “Now You See Me,” “The Social Network,” “Zombieland,” “Adventureland,” and “The Squid and the Whale.” He is currently shooting “Batman v Superman,” in which he plays Lex Luthor. He has written and starred in the plays “The Revisionist,” alongside Vanessa Redgrave, and “Asuncion.” He is a contributor to The New Yorker, the author of the forthcoming collection “Bream Gives Me Hiccups,” and a former foster parent for cats.
Malcolm Gladwell has been a staff writer at The New Yorkersince 1996. He is the author of the Times best-sellers “The Tipping Point,” “Blink,” and “Outliers,” as well as “David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants” and a collection of his New Yorker pieces, “What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures,” which contains his Profile of the “dog whisperer” Cesar Millan.
Alexandra Horowitz has been teaching psychology, animal behavior, and canine cognition at Barnard College since 2004. She has studied non-human cognition, especially in dogs; currently, she is testing the olfactory acuity of the domestic dog. She is the author of the Times best-seller “Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know” and “On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes.” Before her scientific career, she was on the staff of The New Yorker.
Anthony Hutcherson owns the Maryland-based JungleTrax Cattery. He is the chairman of the International Association’s Bengal Breed Committee and the former president of the International Bengal Cat Society and will contribute a column to Bengals Illustrated. He has been raising and showing Bengal cats—an exotic breed descended from the wild leopard cat/domestic cat hybrids—since 1993. He is writing a book, “Purrposeful Love,” about cat breeds, and developing a feline-focussed television show.
Ariel Levy joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 2008. She is working on a book based on her piece “Thanksgiving in Mongolia,” which won the 2014 National Magazine Award for Essays and Criticism. Her article “Living-Room Leopards” appears in “The Big New Yorker Book of Cats.”
Joyce Carol Oates has published numerous story collections and novels, including “Black Water,” “What I Lived For,” and “Blonde,” all of which were Pulitzer Prize finalists, and, most recently, “Carthage” and “High Crime Area: Tales of Darkness and Dread,” which were published this year. She has received the National Book Award for fiction and the National Humanities Medal, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Adam Gopnik has been writing for The New Yorker since 1986. His books include the essay collections “Paris to the Moon” and “Through the Children’s Gate”; the children’s novels “The King in the Window” and “The Steps Across the Water”; and a book about cooking and eating, “The Table Comes First: Family, France, and the Meaning of Food.” His personal-history piece “Dog Story” and his essay “A Note on Thurber’s Dogs” are included in “The Big New Yorker Book of Dogs.”
Anthony Lane has been a film critic for The New Yorker since 1993. In 2001, he received the National Magazine Award for Reviews and Criticism. He is the author of “Nobody’s Perfect,” a collection of his New Yorker reviews, essays, and Profiles. He wrote the foreword to “The Big New Yorker Book of Cats.”
David Remnick is the editor of The New Yorker.
(Please note: No pets allowed. Service animals specifically trained to aid a person with a disability are welcome.)
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