This year's New Yorker Festival is shaping up to be bonkers! Among the announced events are readings with Miranda July and AM Homes discussing deviants, Sir Salman Rushdie and Orhan Pamuk trading insights on homeland, and Martin Amis and Norman Mailer will talk about "monsters."

There will be conversations with Steve Carell, Steve Martin, Bill Nighy and opera director Peter Sellars. There’s a panel discussion with TV masterminds Jenji Kohan (creator of “Weeds”), Ronald Moore (“Battlestar Galactica”), David Shore (“House”), David Simon (“The Wire”) and David Milch (“Deadwood”).

On the music side, Diplo and Sasha Frere-Jones host a dance party on Friday night. Fiona Apple talks with Sasha Frere-Jones at the Brooklyn Lyceum. Sigur Rós will perform acoustic and talk with John Seabrook. David Byrne celebrates his bicycle. Rosanne Cash talks with Hendrik Hertzberg. Yo La Tengo talks with Ben Greenman.

One of the coolest events will be acrobat David Belle doing a demonstration of how to do Parkour. Read all about the insane world of Parkour here.

The eighth annual New Yorker Festival runs from October 5th through October 7th. A complete schedule will be available September 10th online at http://festival.newyorker.com, as well as in The New Yorker’s September 17th issue. Tickets will be available starting Saturday, September 15th, via Ticketmaster, 1-877-391-0545. Tickets sell out instantly so don't hesitate......