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In this episode, high schoolers in Queens simulate an election, Salt Lake City’s openly gay mayor-elect talks about the Mormon Church, and Lena Dunham tries to get drinks with a friend. (episode)
Why is it so hard to make a simple plan with a friend? Lena Dunham and Allison Williams, from the HBO series “Girls,” perform Kelly Stout’s “Let’s Get Drinks.”
Townsend Harris High School in Queens mounted a school-wide presidential election simulation, with students playing the candidates, pollsters, fundraisers, and journalists.
Roger Angell, a senior editor and staff writer, has contributed to The New Yorker since 1944, and he spoke with David Remnick about writing into his tenth decade.
David Haglund, an editor at The New Yorker who was born in Utah and raised Mormon, spoke with Salt Lake City's mayor, who's an openly gay woman.
Amelia Lester, an editor at The New Yorker, shares two recent cultural picks: “Please Like Me,” an Australian television series, and Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels.