Michael Schulman

Event Details - The New Yorker Festival

And in the morning, I'll be on a panel about profile writing, with my esteemed colleagues Larissa MacFarquhar, Rebecca Mead, Ian Parker, and Kelefa Sanneh, moderated by editor Daniel Zalewski. Hope to see you there! festival.newyorker.com/event-detail...

Event Details - The New Yorker Festival

The New Yorker Festival just announced its first slate of events, and I'm excited to be doing two on Sunday, Oct. 26th. In the evening, I'll be talking with Jonathan Groff, who'll also be singing some tunes... / festival.newyorker.com/event-detail...

This strikes me as really sick, for some reason. A woman is dead and somehow it was too much trouble to get a human to think about it rather than just have a robot scrape other people’s reporting

And MOTHERF%&*ER, how the hell did this guy get an assault rifle?

It's astonishing that, of all the people in New York City, Wesley would be in such the wrong place at such the wrong time. She was all about doing things exactly right. /

I wasn't in close touch with her, but it seemed like she would always be around—in part because she was a force: big smile, big voice, big ambition, big friendliness. /

Slain Blackstone Executive Was a Mentor to Women and a Leader at Work

I met Wesley when we were four years old, and she's the only person I can say I went to nursery school, elementary school, high school, AND college with—half our lives overlapped. /

Why does the candidate for New York City comptroller think he has to be BUFF, to the point that he can’t be in the same room as pasta? Is Brad Lander swole?

❤️

When I was 22 (half my current age, yikes!) all I wanted to do was get published in Talk of the Town. I’m grateful I’ve got to write so many, and hope they’ve brought little cherry bombs of joy to the world.

Judd Hirsch, in Medias Res The eighty-seven-year-old actor, who plays Steven Spielberg’s great-uncle Boris in “The Fabelmans,” traipses around his old Bronx stomping grounds and recounts stories (Colin Powell! Robert Moses!) wi...

And from 2022, Judd Hirsch, then starring in "The Fabelmans," tours his old neighborhood in the Bronx. Probably my favorite kind of Talk piece to write: when the subject is just an absolute nutball. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Ethan Hawke Waits for Godot, or for the Zoom Screen to Unfreeze After a rehearsal for a virtual production of the play, Hawke and his co-star John Leguizamo ponder how all dialogue now sounds like Beckett.

During the lockdown, we had to get creative with Talk pieces - and artists had to get creative too. This piece, about Ethan Hawke and John Leguizamo doing a Zoom version of "Waiting for Godot," is written in the form of a play. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Daniel Radcliffe and the Art of the Fact-Check Researching his role in “The Lifespan of a Fact,” the actor embeds in The New Yorker’s fact-checking department.

As Daniel Radcliffe was preparing to play a fact-checker on Broadway, he embedded in The New Yorker's checking department for a day and checked a restaurant review. Fourth wall: demolished. www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...

Trapped in the Garden with Parker Posey At her new digs in the West Village, the actress and newly minted memoirist gets locked out.

From 2018, the time I got trapped in a garden with Parker Posey and had to escape with her by scaling a fence. This was one of the craziest things to ever happen to me, and probably a typical Friday for Parker Posey. www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...

Underground Beauties Twenty-five former Miss Subways winners ate salmon with Megan Fairchild, of the musical “On the Town,” and Michael Schulman, at Ellen’s Stardust Diner.

From 2014, a reunion of women who had won the Miss Subways competition met at Ellen's Stardust Diner and then caught a matinee of "On the Town." www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...

Liftoff

When Emma Thompson was playing P.L. Travers in "Saving Mr. Banks," I wanted to do something Mary Poppins-related with her, so we decided to go fly a kite. www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...

Black Sheep

A walk through the park with Pedro Almodóvar and his translator. He learns the difference between "make love" and "have sex." This illustration by Tom Bachtell hangs in my apartment. www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...

Backstory

From 2012, the love story of Roger Rees and Rick Elice, written as a timeline. Sometimes it takes decades for two lives to align. Roger died three years later. www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...

Stomping Grounds

In 2009, I brought Carrie Fisher to Studio 54, where she was about to do her one-woman show - her first time there since it was a nightclub. "My mind is just CHEESE," she said, entering the lobby. www.newyorker.com/magazine/200...

My first Talk piece (and first byline) was in 2006, when I met a cooper from Colonial Williamsburg and brought him to Williamsburg, Brooklyn, so he could compare the two Williamsburgs. www.newyorker.com/magazine/200...

From “I, Tonya” to Chris Farley, Pound by Pound Need a meaty, cloddish, yet affable Everyman who can act? Paul Walter Hauser knows how to own the body type.

This week for Talk of the Town, I talked to Paul Walter Hauser as he got a vitamin IV drip. This is my 200th Talk piece, AND it's my birthday, so if you'll indulge me I'm going to share ten of my favorites from the Schulman archive... www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

They moved on to a scene in which Gianna spars with Anthony in his apartment. King had written LuPone a saucy exit line: “Questo corridoio puzza,” which translates to “This hallway stinks.” LuPone gave him options, punching her “P”s: “Questo corridoio puzza!” (Pugnacious.) “Questo corridoio puzza.” (Droll.) “Questo corridoio puzza! Ugh!” (Revolted.) When they wrapped, King told her, “You are a delight.”

Finally! I’ve been waiting to find out which take they used…

Drugs, Paid Sex and No Prenup: David Geffen’s Divorce Drama Goes Public as Mogul’s Ex Files Explosive Lawsuit Donovan Michaels has sued Hollywood mogul David Geffen for breach of contract, claiming that Geffen treated him like 'a living social experiment.'

Sounds like there’s a new David Geffen School of DRAMA. variety.com/2025/music/n...

Shelley Duvall melts indifference. You're unable to repress your response; you go right to her in delight, saying "I'm yours." (1974)

Amazing. I can't remember the piece, but once someone jumped back to the literal beginning of the universe and I was, like, damn!

I do remember how taken I was by his mind, which didn’t so much impose order on things as see the order that was already there. Raised in Connecticut in a Catholic household, he had faith—and perhaps that faith would extend to me beyond this moment of possibility? Let me tell you more about this moment, and moments that preceded it, because they all live together: First, you are standing by yourself in the world, and it’s fine. Then you blink and find yourself sitting in the palm of someone’s hand. That person peers down at you with the look of a connoisseur gazing at a curiosity, until suddenly a shy surprise fills both of you and alters the world as you know it. This might be too much to put on one meeting, but it’s all true.

I mean COME ON.

Finding a Family of Boys Leaving Brooklyn for a new life as a college student in Manhattan was in itself an act of becoming.

I'm late to reading and sharing this personal essay by Hilton Als, but it's a stunner: Hilton at the height of his considerable powers of reflection, full of holy-shit sentences. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

The Campaign to “Cancel” Colbert

As I remember it, the #CancelColbert firestorm of 2014 helped popularize the term "cancel culture," which then fueled a moral panic that propelled the fascist right, which is now the force that seems to have actually canceled Colbert. Am I getting this right? www.newyorker.com/news/news-de...

YouTube video by OurHitParade OUR HIT PARADE - Jenn Harris - Cooler Than Me

The new "Oh, Mary!" cast is off the charts: Kumail Nanjiani, Michael Urie and Jenn Harris join Jinkx Monsoon in August. Wild, especially for the Jenn Harris uber-fans among us. You know who you are (and I probably know you, too). Classic: www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7Hf...