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On October 25, 2025, the singer St. Vincent spoke with The New Yorker’s staff writer Vinson Cunningham at the 26th yearly New Yorker Festival, a weekend brimming with talks, screenings, performances, and beyond. The Festival, which stands as the magazine’s prominent affair, took place in New York City and assembled foremost personalities in literature, film, comedy, TV, politics, and medicine.
St. Vincent, the professional alias of Annie Clark, is a songstress, a producer, and a director, recognized worldwide for her genre-bending music and her groundbreaking multimedia artistry. She has secured six Grammy Awards, including three Best Alternative Music Album Awards, for “St. Vincent,” “Daddy’s Home,” and her most recent offering, “All Born Screaming.” Praised for her masterful guitar playing, her sonic experimentation, her incisive lyrical stories, and her consistently changing visual aesthetic, St. Vincent has continually received critical praise for defying norms. Her blend of art rock, electronic, and pop elements in her compositions has secured her a position among the most significant creators of her time.
Vinson Cunningham became a staff writer at The New Yorker in 2016. Since 2018, he has functioned as a critic for the publication, commenting on theatre, television, and more. He was a contender for the Pulitzer Prize for criticism in 2024 and 2025, and received the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism for 2021-22. In 020, he was a finalist for a National Magazine Award for his Profile of the comedian Tracy Morgan. He instructs at the Yale School of Art and at Columbia University’s School of the Arts, and co-hosts Critics at Large, The New Yorker’s weekly culture and arts podcast. His initial novel, “Great Expectations,” was released in 2024.
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