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The Brian Lehrer ShowAdam Gopnik's New York StoriesAdam Gopnik, staff writer for The New Yorker, and author of The Real Work, talks about his one-man play, "Adam Gopnik's New York" in performance at Lincoln Center through Sunday.
2025-10-2014 min
Ruthie's Table 4From The Archive: Adam GopnikAdam Gopnik is a brilliant mind. An acclaimed writer, essayist and commentator; he's authored nine books, and has written for The New Yorker for nearly forty years, to which he's contributed non-fiction, fiction, memoir and criticism. I've been lucky enough to share 34 years of friendship with Adam, and in that time, we've never stopped cooking, and sharing our passion for food. Today, we're talking about family, the world, and of course, eating. Originally recorded in 2024. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
2025-10-1435 min
Little Known Facts with Ilana LevineEpisode 477 - Adam GopnikAward-winning, best-selling author Adam Gopnik has been a writer for The New Yorker since 1986 – covering fiction, humor, criticism, art, book reviews, personal essays, profiles, and reported pieces from abroad. He has written nine books, ranging from essay collections about Paris and food, to children’s novels, as well as several musicals and theater pieces. Gopnik has won three National Magazine Awards, for essays and for criticism, and the George Polk Award for Magazine Reporting. In 2021 he was made a Chevalier of the Legion d’honneur, and this year was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Letters. He lectures widely...
2025-10-1350 min
IdeasWriter Adam Gopnik on the Evolution of Antisemitism Into Anti-urbanismThe current wave of anti-elitism, and anti-urbanism we’re seeing from authoritarian leaders and their followers may seem to have erupted out of nowhere. But for New Yorker writer and former CBC Massey Lecturer, Adam Gopnik, what we see now stems from historic antisemitism.
2025-02-1854 min
Ruthie's Table 4Bonus: Adam Gopnik on James Carville and America's FutureIn this bonus episode of Ruthie’s Table 4, with the inauguration approaching, Ruthie joins friend and writer for The New Yorker, Adam Gopnik, to discuss James Carville, the election and America’s future. Ruthie's Table 4, made in partnership with Moncler.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
2025-01-1618 min
Live Wire with Luke BurbankIntroducing "Damp January" podcast, plus Adam Gopnik and DessaIn a special episode of Live Wire, host Luke Burbank introduces our new limited series podcast Damp January. Over five episodes in January, Burbank explores his sometimes complicated relationship with alcohol through conversations with writers, podcasters, and others. In this selection from Episode 1, he chats with his mother, Susie, about her journey to sobriety. Then, The New Yorker's Adam Gopnik discusses his book The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery, in which he learns how to drive a car at age 55 and pee in public, before poet and singer Dessa performs her track "Crash."
2025-01-0352 min
Ruthie's Table 4Adam GopnikAdam Gopnik is a brilliant mind. An acclaimed writer, essayist and commentator; he's authored nine books, and has written for The New Yorker for nearly forty years, to which he's contributed non-fiction, fiction, memoir and criticism. I've been lucky enough to share 34 years of friendship with Adam, and in that time, we've never stopped cooking, and sharing our passion for food. Today, we're talking about family, the world, and of course, eating. Ruthie's Table 4, made in partnership with Me+EmSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
2024-12-1036 min
Health Harmony & Heather with Heather ThomsonAdam Gopnik: True Happiness , & Achievement vs. AccomplishmentAdam Gopnik’s newest book was released in April 2024 called All That Happiness Is: Some words on what Matters and takes a look at our society’s endless obsession with Striving. Gopnik says society is obsessed with achievement. Young people are pushed toward the “best” school they can get into. Adults push themselves toward the highest-paying, most prestigious jobs, seeking promotions and public recognition. The result is not so much a rat race as a rat maze, with no way out. Except one: to choose accomplishment over achievement. A staff writer for the New Yorker since 19...
2024-10-011h 00
Chicago Humanities TapesAdam Gopnik Delights in Investigating a New SkillBeloved New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik explores and celebrates his love of taking up new skills in midlife including magic, drawing, boxing, and even ballroom dancing with his adult daughter. Slipping in and out of French, he discusses his recent book Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery with Gloria Groom, the chair of Painting and Sculpture of Europe and David and Mary Winton Green Curator at the Art Institute of Chicago. SHOW NOTES Watch the full conversation here. Read the podcast transcript. PHOTO: Gloria Groom and Adam Gopnik on stage...
2024-08-0648 minChicago Humanities TapesAdam Gopnik Delights in Investigating a New SkillBeloved New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik explores and celebrates his love of taking up new skills in midlife including magic, drawing, boxing, and even ballroom dancing with his adult daughter. Slipping in and out of French, he discusses his recent book Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery with Gloria Groom, the chair of Painting and Sculpture of Europe and David and Mary Winton Green Curator at the Art Institute of Chicago. SHOW NOTES Watch the full conversation here. Read the podcast transcript. PHOTO: Gloria Groom and Adam Gopnik on stage...
2024-08-0648 minChicago Humanities TapesAdam Gopnik Delights in Investigating a New SkillBeloved New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik explores and celebrates his love of taking up new skills in midlife including magic, drawing, boxing, and even ballroom dancing with his adult daughter. Slipping in and out of French, he discusses his recent book Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery with Gloria Groom, the chair of Painting and Sculpture of Europe and David and Mary Winton Green Curator at the Art Institute of Chicago. SHOW NOTES Watch the full conversation here. Read the podcast transcript. PHOTO: Gloria Groom and Adam Gopnik on stage...
2024-08-0648 minHealth Harmony & Heather with Heather ThomsonAdam Gopnik: True Happiness, & Achievement vs. AccomplishmentAdam Gopnik’s newest book was released in April 2024 called All That Happiness Is: Some words on what Matters and takes a look at our society’s endless obsession with Striving. Gopnik says society is obsessed with achievement. Young people are pushed toward the “best” school they can get into. Adults push themselves toward the highest-paying, most prestigious jobs, seeking promotions and public recognition. The result is not so much a rat race as a rat maze, with no way out. Except one: to choose accomplishment over achievement. A staff writer for the New Yorker since 1986, Adam Gopnik w...
2024-06-2658 min
The Arik Korman ShowAdam Gopnik on All That Happiness IsAdam Gopnik, staff writer at The New Yorker, discusses how to overcome our anxiety about trying new things, how to redirect our kids away from having too much screen time, and what ultimately gives us the most happiness in life. Adam's latest book is All That Happiness Is: Some Words on What Matters.
2024-06-2325 min
The Unmistakable Creative PodcastAdam Gopnik | The Tyranny of Achievement VS the Joy of AccomplishmentJoin Adam Gopnik as he explores the themes of happiness, family dynamics, and the pursuit of personal passions in this compelling episode. Adam shares insights from his latest book, "All That Happiness Is," discussing how our achievements and the simple joys of life intertwine to shape our experiences. He delves into his upbringing in a vibrant family of six, reflecting on how this environment fostered a deep understanding of human relationships and influenced his career in writing and journalism. Subscribe for ad-free interviews and bonus episodes https://plus.acast.com/s/the-unmistakable-creative-podcast.
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2024-06-1956 min
Berkeley TalksAdam Gopnik on what it takes to keep liberal democracies aliveIn Berkeley Talks episode 202, New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik discusses liberalism — what it means, why we need it and the endless dedication it requires to maintain. Liberal democracy, he said at a UC Berkeley event in April, depends on two pillars: free and fair elections and the practice of open institutions, places where people can meet and debate without the pressures of overt supervision. Gopnik said these spaces of “commonplace civilization” — coffeehouses, parks, even zoos — enable democratic elections to “reform, accelerate and improve.” “These secondary institutions … are not in themselves explicitly political at all, but provide littl...
2024-06-141h 09
Really Famous with Kara Mayer RobinsonAdam GopnikThe New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik is a fabulous conversationalist and we have quite the engaging conversation about everything from happiness to New York vs. Los Angeles, Paris, books, raising kids, achievement vs. accomplishment, flow state, Gen Z's challenges, Malcolm Gladwell and more. Lots covered in a short time. Enjoy. Shop with my Amazon shopping link ➤ https://www.amazon.com/shop/reallyfamous Get Adam's books, including: ➤ All That Happiness Is https://amzn.to/3VSZKq2 ➤ From Paris to the Moon https://amzn.to/3xxn2YA Subscribe on YouTub...
2024-05-151h 01
The Michael Shermer ShowAccomplishment and Happiness (Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker)We push ourselves toward the highest-paying, most prestigious jobs, seeking promotions and public recognition. As Adam Gopnik points out, the result is not so much a rat race as a rat maze, with no way out. Except one: to choose accomplishment over achievement. Achievement is the completion of the task imposed from outside. Accomplishment, by contrast, is the end point of an engulfing activity one engages in for its own sake. Shermer and Gopnik discuss: mastering the secrets of stage magic (Gopnik's son worked with David Blaine and Jamy Ian Swiss) accomplishment i...
2024-04-231h 23
TechstinationAll That Happiness is from Adam Gopnik looks at accomplishments vs achievementsTechstination, your destination for gadgets and gear. I’m Fred Fishkin. Author Adam Gopnik is back again with another title that we can all make good use of. All That Happiness Is …Some Words on What Matters. And what The New Yorker staff writer examines here…are our accomplishments versus our achievements…
“I give the simple example of when I was 12 years old I sat on the bed in my bedroom in Montreal struggling with a 40 dollar folk guitar to learn the chords of Beatles songs. I had to do it myself, stretch and bend my fingers painfully...
2024-04-2302 min
TechstinationTechstination Interview: Adam Gopnik tackles accomplishment versus achievement in new bookAll That Happiness Is is the title of an upcoming book from author and New Yorker staff writer Adam Gopnik. The focus is on accomplishment versus achievement. What are the differences? Gopnik chats with Techstination's Fred Fishkin.
2024-03-2917 min
STRATFEST@HOMEE08: A Thousand Small Sanities: Adam Gopnik with Justice Rosalie Abella | Everyday Forum PodcastHosts Beck Lloyd and Khadijah Roberts-Abdullah invite you to this heightened academic conversation filled with love and mutual admiration. The incomparable and inspiring Supreme Court Justice Rosalie Abella sits down with award-winning writer and essayist Adam Gopnik to discuss his new book, A Thousand Small Sanities: the Moral Adventure of Liberalism. Through their conversation, these two deeply passionate and well-informed individuals explore their varied ways of thinking and discuss the rise of authoritarianism and the true meaning of liberalism at length, weaving in and out of moments filled with agreement and at times disagreement.
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2023-12-061h 44
Higher Ed Happy HourAdam Gopnik on The Mystery of Mastery | Ep. 32In this episode, Ian speaks with Adam Gopnik. For decades, Adam has been one of America’s most beloved writers. He is best known as a staff writer for The New Yorker and as the author of nearly a dozen books, including his latest, "The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery".
In the book, he apprentices himself to an artist, a dancer, a boxer, and even a driving instructor, where he finds that mastering a skill is a process of methodically breaking down and building up, piece by piece—and that true mastery, in any field, requires mastering othe...
2023-09-011h 01
AlonementAdam Gopnik: Solitude And The City, Edward Hopper & The Joy Of Being Alone In A CrowdThis week's guest is Adam Gopnik, a long-standing staff writer at the New Yorker, and the award-winning author of a frankly intimidating number of books, most recently The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery, which explores the process of learning a new skill. And then there was his recent Hollywood debut – those who’ve seen Oscar-winning film Tar might have also spotted Adam playing himself, as an interviewer, alongside Cate Blanchett in the film’s opening scene. Today, we’re talking about solitude – and how it’s played out in Adam’s writing career and life more broadly. As a true New...
2023-07-1440 min
Behind the Mic With Kirkus ReviewsSO MANY STEVES by Steve Martin, Adam Gopnik, read by Steve Martin, Adam GopnikHost Jo Reed and AudioFile’s Alan Minskoff discuss this short audiobook from Steve Martin and Adam Gopnik. Gopnik asks questions, provides context and insights, and then lets the protean Steve Martin tell his own stories, making the work come across as a kind of memoir. Martin’s conversational tone elevates the personal recollections of his complex life. We get the great comic from his student days to his pursuit of stand-up, acting, writing and more. Through it all are banjo playing and jokes delivered in Martin’s classic style.Read the full review of the audiobook on Aud...
2023-06-2307 min
The Next Big IdeaTHE REAL WORK: Adam Gopnik on the Mystery of MasteryA few years ago, Adam Gopnik, a longtime writer for The New Yorker and three-time winner of the National Magazine Award, started thinking about all the things he wasn't good at. He couldn't dance the foxtrot or bake a brioche. Well into his 50s, he still had no idea how to drive a car. To make matters worse, when he looked around, he saw people who could do these things — often with great skill. How, he wondered, did they do it? How do any of us get good at the things we're good at? And how do some of us...
2023-06-0147 min
Fast Politics with Molly Jong-FastStuart Stevens, Jason Stanley & Adam GopnikThe Lincoln Project's Stuart Stevens plays out the Republican primary and reveals the catch-22 in which the 'also-rans' find themselves. Professor Jason Stanley, author of How Propaganda Works, details what to expect from the Republican Party's continued march towards fascism. Adam Gopnik, from The New Yorker, discusses his latest book, The Real Work: On The Mystery of Mastery.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
2023-05-2254 min
The Sport of Life: Chats w/ Comedians, Filmmakers, Sports Figures, Musicians, & Intellectuals#335 - Adam Gopnik on THE REAL WORKThe New Yorker's Adam Gopnik chats with Trey Elling about THE REAL WORK: ON THE MYSTERY OF MASTERY. Topics include:
The book’s goal (0:38)
The importance of learning new skills (3:26)
Defining ‘mastery’ (6:12)
The mystery of performance (8:19)
Jamy Ian Swiss and the real work (13:15)
“The method is not the trick” (16:33)
Learning about mastery from David Blaine (19:11)
The mystery of identity and intention (23:53)
The challenge of Adam learning to drive a car in his 50s (29:07)
How learning to drive in NYC changed his perception of the city (32:38)
Courtesy waves (34:54)
The mystery of interiority (36:24)
The mystery of meaning (40:17)
The mystery of late style...
2023-05-2058 min
Revisionist HistoryThe Mystery of Mastery with Adam GopnikIn a live conversation taped at the 92nd Street Y in New York City, Malcolm chats with his old friend and New Yorker magazine colleague, Adam Gopnik, about Adam’s latest book, The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery. In the book, Adam follows numerous masters of their craft to find out just how they do what they do—and discovers that there is mastery all around us. In this episode, Malcolm and Adam highlight a few of the folks from the book, and what they have to teach us. You can purchase the audiobook version of The Real...
2023-05-1837 min
Living Longer Better SmarterWhat's Next Living Longer Better Smarter- The Mystery of Mastery with Adam Gopnik- episode 50
With a new book "The Real Work on the Mystery of Mastery" and a new audio book as well with Steve Martin, Adam Gopnik has so much to share. He takes up boxing, baking, dancing, art, driving and magic. You don't want to miss his tales. Join us for episode 50 of What's Next Living Longer Better Smarter. Plus with the Surgeon General focused on the epidemic of loneliness, Vivid-Pix founder Rick Voight shares the connection between photos and mental health.
2023-05-0540 min
Doin' It with Mike SacksThe Mystery of Mastery with Adam GopnikMike tells two traditional jokes and then interviews Adam Gopnik, author of the new “The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery”
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– This episode was produced by Rob Schulte
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2023-04-301h 14
The Stuph File Program#0714: Adam Gopnik; Doogie Lish Sandtiger; & Marc Hartzman
The Stuph File Program
Featuring Adam Gopnik, author of The Real Work: On The Mystery Of Mastery; Doogie Lish Sandtiger, the King Of Crocs; & Marc Hartzman, author of Chasing Ghosts: A Tour of Our Fascination with Spirits and the Supernatural
2023-04-2359 min
Live Wire with Luke BurbankThe New Yorker's Adam Gopnik Tackles "The Real Work"The New Yorker's Adam Gopnik takes us a journey of his new book The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery, in which he learns how to draw, drive a car at age 55, and pee in public; standup comedian Abby Govindan scams the KKK for a college class; and singer-songwriter Reckless Son chats about playing for the incarcerated at over 150 prisons across the nation, before performing his song "The Wisdom of a Child." Plus, host Luke Burbank and announcer Elena Passarello share what our listeners have mastered.
2023-04-2151 min
How To Academy PodcastAdam Gopnik - The Mystery of Skill and MasteryThe New Yorker's Adam Gopnik is a master literary stylist, acclaimed as one of wisest and most insightful figures in American journalism. But was he already too advanced in years to master other skills - including those that require as much of the body as they do of the mind? He studied with a boxer, a dancer, a driving instructor, a fine artist and more in pursuit of the secrets of mastery. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
2023-04-211h 15
20 Questions With20 Questions With Adam GopnikAdam Gopnik is one of America's foremost writers. He's worked at The New Yorker for nearly four decades and won three National Magazine Awards as well as a George Polk Award. Here he discusses his 10th book, The Real Work, in which he investigates the art of mastery, and offers precious insights into his own craft of writing.
2023-04-2048 min20 Questions With20 Questions With Adam GopnikAdam Gopnik is one of America's foremost writers. He's worked at The New Yorker for nearly four decades and won three National Magazine Awards as well as a George Polk Award. Here he discusses his 10th book, The Real Work, in which he investigates the art of mastery, and offers precious insights into his own craft of writing.
2023-04-2048 min
Doin' It with Mike SacksThe Mystery of Mastery with Adam GopnikMike tells two traditional jokes and then interviews Adam Gopnik, author of the new "The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery"
2023-04-181h 14
My Better HalfNew Yorker writer Adam Gopnik on life long learningHe's had a stellar career with words, but New Yorker staff writer Adam Gopnik is finding things especially sweet in the second half of life. After all, how often does an author get to be in a movie--playing himself--with Cate Blanchett? That was him, interviewing the lead character in the movie Tár. Now we turn the tables, and interview Gopnik for the latest edition of My Better Half. JPR's Vanessa Finney exchanges some words with the writer about the joys of lifelong learning in his new book The Real Work: O...
2023-04-1428 min
The Next Big Idea DailyS9 E5: Boxing, Dancing and Connecting (Adam Gopnik)In our final episode with Adam Gopnik, the award-winning New Yorker writer and author of "The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery" learns how to box, how to dance, and why there’s “no mastery in the absence of another.”Our newsletter comes out today! Sign up now!
2023-03-3113 minThe Next Big Idea DailyS9 E3: Mastering the Art of Baking (Adam Gopnik)Adam Gopnik's first memory of mastery was watching his mother roll out strudel dough, so in midlife, he asked his mother — a linguistics professor by day, pastry maestro by night — to teach him how to bake.
2023-03-2911 minThe Next Big Idea DailyS9 E2: Learning to Drive (Adam Gopnik)It's the second day of our week-long master class with Adam Gopnik, New Yorker staff writer and author of "The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery." Today, he explains how learning to drive at the tender age of 55 brought him closer to his father.Have you subscribed to our newsletter yet? It comes out every Friday and features commentary from Michael, links to relevant Book Bites, previews of upcoming seasons, and ways to engage with us. Sign up now!
2023-03-2812 minThe Next Big Idea DailyS9 E1: The Grammar of Mastery (Adam Gopnik)A few years ago, Adam Gopnik, a longtime writer for The New Yorker and three-time winner of the National Magazine Award, started thinking about all the things he wasn't good at. He couldn't dance the foxtrot or bake a brioche. Well into his 50s, he still had no idea how to drive a car. To make matters worse, when he looked around, he saw people who could do these things — often with great skill. How, he wondered, did they do it? How do any of us get good at the things we're good at? And how do some of us...
2023-03-2715 min
Free Library PodcastAdam Gopnik | The Real Work: On the Mystery of MasteryFeaturing magician, Justin Gilmore
A staff writer at The New Yorker for more than three decades, Adam Gopnik is the author of Paris to the Moon, The Table Comes First, At the Strangers' Gate, and A Thousand Small Sanities, a ''witty, humane, learned'' (The New York Times) defense of liberalism amidst the dogmatic divisions of our time. He is also a sought-after public speaker, widely anthologized essayist, and has collaborated as both a librettist and lyric writer on several musical projects. A three-time recipient of the National Magazine Award and a winner of the George Polk Award for Magazine Reporting, Gopnik...
2023-03-2257 min
Food with Mark BittmanAdam Gopnik Knows the Secret to SoufflésThe prolific New Yorker writer talks to Mark and Kate about micro mastery vs macro mastery, the ideal way to get a soufflé to rise, and his favorite New York meals. View this episode's recipe and show notes here: https://www.bittmanproject.com/p/food-with-mark-bittman-adam-gopnikSubscribe to Food with Mark Bittman on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you like to listen, and please help us grow by leaving us a 5 star review on Apple Podcasts.Follow Mark on Twitter at @bittman, and on Facebook and Instagram at @markbittman. Subscribe to Mar...
2023-03-1532 min
Absorb The Sensational Full Audiobook Now, Thriller Fans!The Real Work by Adam GopnikPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/213556to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Real Work
Author: Adam Gopnik
Narrator: Adam Gopnik
Format: mp3
Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
Release date: 03-14-23
Ratings: 3.5 out of 5 stars, 14 ratings
Genres: Creativity & Genius
Publisher's Summary:
For decades, Adam Gopnik has been one of our most beloved writers, a brilliantly perceptive critic of art, food, France, and more. But recently, he became obsessed by a fundamental matter: How did the people he was writing about learn their outlandish skill, whether it was drawing a nude or baking a sourdough loaf? In The Real Work, Gopnik apprentices...
2023-03-147h 50
The Press BoxAdam Gopnik on Acting in ‘Tár,’ Writing for The New Yorker, and 50 Years of Jets FandomBryan is joined by New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik. They talk about his role in ‘Tár’ and what it was like to work on the movie (1:50). Then, they discuss The New Yorker and his career in journalism (14:50). Finally, they get into his relationship with sports and sports media (26:00).Host: Bryan CurtisGuest: Adam GopnikAssociate Producer: Carlos Chiriboga Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
2023-03-1037 min
Samtal med CwejmanAdam Gopnik – om hoten mot demokratin, liberalismens historia och de populistiska vindarnaAdam Gopnik är mångårig medarbetare på tidskriften New Yorker. I hans senaste bok, Tusen små framsteg, som utkom på svenska i år, skriver han om liberalismens historia och framtid, samt vilka frihetliga ideal som idag utmanas. Tillsammans med Adam pratar han om populism och sanning, om frihetsbegreppet är urvattnat och om vilka hot han ser mot demokratin i vår tid. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2023-01-0353 min
The Lonely PaletteBonusEp. 07 - Tamar Avishai interviews Adam Gopnik, Critic, The New YorkerThere isn’t a single subject that Adam Gopnik’s prose can’t bring to life. As staff writer at the New Yorker since 1986, he has written about almost everything, including, just in the last year, Proust, gun control, the Beatles, and the Marquis de Lafayette. But it’s when he starts writing about art that things get particularly delectable: “the runny, the spilled…the lipstick-traces-left-on-the-kleenex” life and style of Helen Frankenthaler; “the paint, laid on with a palette knife, that deliciously resembles cake frosting” technique of Florine Stettheimer; “the monumental and mock-monumental that tango in the imagination” of Claes Oldenburg.
And perha...
2022-09-021h 07
Fri Tanke-poddenAdam Gopnik: Om liberalismens historiaGäst i veckans podd är den amerikanske författaren och kritikern Adam Gopnik, vars bok Tusen små framsteg : Liberalismen - ett moraliskt äventyr nyligen utkommit på svenska. Gopnik menar att liberalismen inte är en form av centrism, och inte heller bara ett annat ord för fria marknader eller ett samlingsbegrepp för en uppsättning fri- och rättigheter. Liberalismens grundtanke är betydligt mer ambitiös än så; radikala förändringar med humana medel, vilket gör det till ett av historiens största moraliska äventyr. Tusen små framsteg är ett manifest sprunget ur de människor som ska...
2022-09-0247 min
Here's The Thing with Alec BaldwinFrom Paris To the Moon with Adam GopnikWriter and essayist Adam Gopnik has been called “one of the greatest thinkers and wordsmiths of our age.” He is best known as a staff writer for The New Yorker, to which he has contributed non-fiction, fiction, memoir and criticism since 1986. The international best-selling author has penned ten titles spanning memoir, essays and children’s literature and is the recipient of three National Magazine Awards and the George Polk Award for Magazine Reporting. Gopnik is also a talented lecturer and storyteller, appearing with the Moth and in a series of one-man shows he created. It seems there isn’t anything...
2022-06-0742 min
Xing The Gap, with Rick MillerAdam Gopnik & Olivia Gopnik-ParkerRick speaks to one of his favourite writers, Adam Gopnik. Adam's recent book A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventures of Liberalism is written as a letter to his daughter Olivia, who joins us for this intergenerational conversation. Adam’s been a staff writer for The New Yorker for 35 years, and has won multiple National Magazine Awards for his essays and criticism. Olivia is studying history at Harvard, and has often figured prominently in her father’s writing, from Bumping Into Mr. Ravioli all the way to today. They talk aboutThe shock of Trump’s electionGrowin...
2022-05-0236 min
Fanfare(North) Americans in Paris: An Interview with Adam GopnikErnest Hemingway first arrived in Paris in December of 1921. One hundred years later, Emily in Paris is back for another season. Why, chers amis, do we continue to be captivated by stories of Americans in Paris? To get to the bottom of this question, Monica and Emma enlist the help of one of our favourite writers (about Paris and in general): the author and essayist Adam Gopnik. A New Yorker staff writer since 1986, Gopnik moved with his wife and infant son from New York to Paris in 1995 and began filing real-life French dispatches under the New Yorker’s then-editor Ti...
2021-12-301h 10
The Marx Brothers Council Podcast41 “Waxing Wroth” - our Horse Feathers deep dive featuring Adam GopnikAdam Gopnik, New Yorker writer and editor of “S.J. Perelman: Writings” joins us for an exhaustive look at the Marx Brothers’ 1932 classic, “Horse Feathers.”
Adam discusses Perelman’s influence and tries to pinpoint his specific lines, Noah is skeptical that “Horse Feathers” owes anything to the brothers’ vaudeville school act, Matthew keeps track of the differences between the film and shooting script, while Bob constantly derails the conversation with trivial observations.
Singing the film’s praises, we can’t help but lament the mangled version history has left us with…we talk about what’s missing and why. We also touch upon Chico’s li...
2021-12-042h 27
Liberte! TALKSAdam Gopnik - „Tysiąc małych poczytalności: Moralna przygoda liberalizmu".Adam Gopnik – Wielokrotnie nagradzany amerykański autor, publicysta związany z magazynem "The New Yorker"
Moderacja: Tomasz Kamiński – profesor w Katedrze Studiów Azjatyckich
Partner: European Liberal Forum – ścieżka ELF’s Hub
Od 1986 roku pisze dla magazynu „The New Yorker”. W ciągu ponad trzydziestu lat pracy w tym magazynie napisał setki esejów, od osobistych wspomnień po recenzje i sylwetki, a także wiele reportaży z zagranicy, a także teksty beletrystyczne, humorystyczne i z zakresu krytyki artystycznej.
Jego książki, od zbiorów esejów o Paryżu i jedzeniu po powieści dla dzieci, obejmują „Paris to the Moon”, „...
2021-03-0540 min
The New Yorker Radio HourA Novel About a Secret Family, and Adam Gopnik on Being OldSanaë Lemoine’s début novel, “The Margot Affair,” is about a seventeen-year-old high-school student whose father, a high-ranking official, does not acknowledge her or her mother publicly. In telling Margot’s story, Lemoine drew upon her own complex family history: when she was twenty-one, she discovered that her father had a secret second family. In an act of literary justice, Margot decides to take action to force her father’s public acknowledgement, in a way that Lemoine herself did not. Plus, Adam Gopnik explores the predicament of an aging population. People of retirement age will outnumber children in the U.S. in...
2020-11-2433 min
The New Liberal PodcastThe Moral Adventure of Liberalism ft. Adam GopnikEveryone seems to agree liberalism is under threat these days, but what exactly is liberalism? Is it a set of policy beliefs, a form of centrism, a belief in markets? Adam Gopnik, author of the new book A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism, argues that liberalism is best understood as a practice, not an ideology. We discuss the various ways to frame liberalism as a concept - as a social technology for tolerance, a tendency towards democratic pluralism, belief in reform over revolution, and more. We also discuss how liberalism is dealing with threats today from soc...
2020-07-211h 05
The ValmyAn enlightening, frustrating conversation on liberalism (with Adam Gopnik) Podcast: The Gray Area with Sean Illing Episode: An enlightening, frustrating conversation on liberalism (with Adam Gopnik)Release date: 2019-06-27Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization“Liberalism is as distinct a tradition as exists in political history, but it suffers from being a practice before it is an ideology, a temperament and a tone and a way of managing the world more than a fixed set of beliefs.”That’s from Adam Gopnik’s new book A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberal...
2020-05-301h 49
Pardon Me – Another Damn Impeachment ShowAdam Gopnik: Stop Saying Impeachment Is PoliticalAdam Gopnik is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism. We talked to Gopnik late last week about his New Yorker piece "Stop Saying That Impeachment Is Political." This interview will run, likely in a form very similar to this one, in this week's Episode 2 of Pardon Me. But we're making it available to you now because... well, because why not, really. GUEST: Adam Gopnik - Staff writer for The New Yorker and the author of many books including, most recen...
2019-12-1120 min
The SydcastFrom Paris to New York, with The New Yorker's Adam GopnikEpisode SummaryIn this episode of The Sydcast, Syd and Adam Gopnik recall the wonders and the tribulations of living in Paris in the pre-9/11 era, the drama of moving to New York City, and what makes these two cities the world capitals they are, no matter how different. Adam talks about writing books, being a writer for The New Yorker magazine, and how the art and writing industries have changed. In typical Adam Gopnik fashion, parenting, marriage, capitalism, education and more are also touched on throughout the episode. Syd...
2019-11-2559 min
The New Yorker Radio HourAdam Gopnik on Aging, and a Visit to Maine with Elizabeth StroutIn fifteen years, people of retirement age will outnumber children for the first time in U.S. history. But, the staff writer Adam Gopnik finds, the elderly are poorly served by the field of design, whether it’s a screw-top plastic bottle or the transportation system of a major city. Gopnik visited the M.I.T. Age Lab, where he tried on a special suit that simulates the pains and difficulties of advanced age for research purposes. And, to put the issues in context, he called a much older friend: the painter Wayne Thiebaud, who, at ninety-eight, is still le...
2019-10-0427 min
The Thing About FranceAdam Gopnik on Montaigne, Romain Gary, and Bastille DayThe amazing thing about Adam Gopnik, staff writer for The New Yorker, is that he knows more about France than many French people. It's as if this podcast was made for him. You can ask him a question about anything, from the Statue of Liberty to French pop music, and he will give you an eloquent, informative and captivating answer. When he arrived at the French Embassy's building on Fifth Avenue for this interview, we had just begun major renovations. We basically met in a storage room, between two cabinets and a sofa pro...
2019-07-0333 min
The Gray Area with Sean IllingAn enlightening, frustrating conversation on liberalism (with Adam Gopnik)“Liberalism is as distinct a tradition as exists in political history, but it suffers from being a practice before it is an ideology, a temperament and a tone and a way of managing the world more than a fixed set of beliefs.”That’s from Adam Gopnik’s new book A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism. It is, by turns, a bracing, charming, insightful, irksome defense of the most successful political movement of our age. Liberalism is so successful, in fact, that its achievements are taken for granted while its shortcomings throb through our politics...
2019-06-271h 49
Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes PodcastDefending Liberalism with Adam GopnikLiberalism is the ordering principal of American government, and yet liberalism is embattled. After the end of the Cold War, it was widely believed that liberal democracy would spread inexorably, but instead new challenges to liberalism have emerged. Across the world, authoritarian governments flourish and some countries have begun to backslide away from liberalism. Even here at home, liberalism’s critics on the left and right have found renewed strength. This week Adam Gopnik, author of the new book A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism, sits down to discuss the roots and tenets of liberalism and the...
2019-06-1155 min
1: Erica's ListAdam Gopnik on Sibling Rivalry, Stand Up, and Liberalism Podcast: Employee of the Month (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)Episode: Adam Gopnik on Sibling Rivalry, Stand Up, and LiberalismPub date: 2019-03-16Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationAdam Gopnik has held many dream jobs, all in the same office. After almost forty years (and counting) at The New Yorker, Gopnik has served as a food, art, and music critic, and he’s written his own novels, children’s books, musicals, and solo shows. His latest (and first) political book A Thousand Small Sanitie...
2019-06-0550 min
1: Erica's List195. Adam Gopnik (essayist) – the rhinoceros of liberalism vs. the unicorns of everything else Podcast: Think Again – a Big Think Podcast (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: 195. Adam Gopnik (essayist) – the rhinoceros of liberalism vs. the unicorns of everything elsePub date: 2019-05-18Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIf I had to choose one word to capture this moment in American (and maybe world) history, “patience” wouldn’t be it. From every direction, everything demands our urgent attention. Everything is a ticking time bomb, or one that’s just exploded, and we’re all the poorly-trained vo...
2019-06-051h 00
Carnegie Council Video PodcastA Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism, with Adam GopnikIn his eloquent defense of liberalism, Adam Gopnik goes back to its origins and argues that rather than being emphasizing the role of the individual, "two principles, the principle of community and the principle of compromise," are at the core of the liberal project. Indeed, these are the essential elements of humane, pluralist societies; and in an age of autocracy, our very lives may depend on their continued existence.
2019-05-2815 min
Carnegie Council PodcastsA Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism, with Adam GopnikIn his eloquent defense of liberalism, Adam Gopnik goes back to its origins and argues that rather than emphasizing the role of the individual, "two principles, the principle of community and the principle of compromise," are at the core of the liberal project. Indeed, these are the essential elements of humane, pluralist societies; and in an age of autocracy, our very lives may depend on their continued existence.
2019-05-2258 min
TBD with Tina BrownAdam Gopnik Wants to Make Liberalism Great Again!Adam Gopnik, the celebrated New Yorker writer whom Tina worked with for many years when she was editor in chief, talks with her about his new book, A Thousand Small Sanities, born of a talk he had with his teenage daughter on the night President Trump was elected. In the book, Gopnik posits that it is not radical revolution that brings about stable, pluralistic nations but the daily small sanities which flow from, among other liberal principles, the ideals of thriving public education and a permanent commitment to reform. He credits such forces as the culture-poking premises of some Americ...
2019-05-2141 min
Think Again - a Big Think PodcastAdam Gopnik (essayist) – the rhinoceros of liberalism vs. the unicorns of everything elseIf I had to choose one word to capture this moment in American (and maybe world) history, “patience” wouldn’t be it.
From every direction, everything demands our urgent attention. Everything is a ticking time bomb, or one that’s just exploded, and we’re all the poorly-trained volunteer ambulance squad. I don’t mean to dismiss the challenges we face: climate change, families being ripped apart while seeking asylum, a school shooting every other week, just to name a few. These are very real. Very urgent indeed. But in fight-or-flight mode, we make drastic, either/or decisions. We forget, as my guest...
2019-05-181h 00
Embark On The Game-Changing Full Audiobook Experience!A Thousand Small Sanities by Adam GopnikPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/29430to listen full audiobooks.
Title: A Thousand Small Sanities
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Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
Release date: 05-14-19
Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 182 ratings
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A Thousand Small Sanities is a manifesto rooted in the lives of people who invented and extended the liberal tradition. Taking us from Montaigne to Mill, and from Middlemarch to the civil rights movement, Adam Gopnik argues that liberalism is not a form of centrism, nor simply another word for free markets, nor merely a term denoting a set of...
2019-05-147h 27
Download Latest Free Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Current Affairs, Law, & PoliticsA Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism by Adam GopnikPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/381108 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism Author: Adam Gopnik Narrator: Adam Gopnik Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 28 minutes Release date: May 14, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A stirring defense of liberalism against the dogmatisms of our time from an award-winning and New York Times bestselling author. Not since the early twentieth century has liberalism, and liberals, been under such relentless attack, from both right and left. The crisis of democracy in our...
2019-05-1403 min
The Colophon3. Adam GopnikWe sat down with Adam Gopnik, mainstay writer at the New Yorker, to discuss everything from becoming a professional writer to life as a dog in New York City.Support the show
2019-04-0659 min
Employee of the MonthAdam Gopnik on Sibling Rivalry, Stand Up, and LiberalismAdam Gopnik has held many dream jobs, all in the same office. After almost forty years (and counting) at The New Yorker, Gopnik has served as a food, art, and music critic, and he’s written his own novels, children’s books, musicals, and solo shows. His latest (and first) political book A Thousand Small Sanities delves into how liberals can save Democracy. In this interview Gopnik talks to Catie Lazarus about the infighting between liberals and progressives, his upcoming solo show at The Red Bull Theater, and the incalculable torment of sibling rivalry.Podc...
2019-03-1650 minEmployee of the MonthAdam Gopnik on Sibling Rivalry, Stand Up, and LiberalismAdam Gopnik has held many dream jobs, all in the same office. After almost forty years (and counting) at The New Yorker, Gopnik has served as a food, art, and music critic, and he’s written his own novels, children’s books, musicals, and solo shows. His latest (and first) political book A Thousand Small Sanities delves into how liberals can save Democracy. In this interview Gopnik talks to Catie Lazarus about the infighting between liberals and progressives, his upcoming solo show at The Red Bull Theater, and the incalculable torment of sibling rivalry.
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2019-03-1654 min
The New Yorker Radio HourThe Countdown to Brexit, Plus Adam Gopnik’s Turkey ZenMore than two years after British voters approved a measure to withdraw their nation from the European Union—a gigantic undertaking with no roadmap of any sort —Prime Minister Theresa May unveiled a plan: essentially, that the U.K. would remain in the European customs union, participating in trade with the E.U. and remaining subject to its trade policies, but exit the political process of the E.U. The deal was seen by some as the worst of both worlds, and several cabinet ministers resigned; May could well lose a no-confidence vote in the immediate future. David Remnick talk...
2018-11-1632 min
In Your Face New YorkAdam Gopnik and BETTYTwo New York cultural icons will share the stage at the next episode of In Your Face-New York.
Adam Gopnik has written on nearly every topic Abraham Lincoln and the history of dessert to B.B. King and The Little Prince.
BETTY plays to sold out crowds the world over bringing their message of inclusivity, love and fun along with blasting guitars and beautifully melded voices.
Special guest Tony nominee Melissa Errico will be joining them along with Dr. Josh Bazell and our feature "Sorry You Asked," playwright Lisa Lewis continues the serialized novella Author to Come. Jay Leonhart leads...
2018-08-2200 min
The Biblio File hosted by Nigel BealeAdam Gopnik on art criticism, love, money and New YorkAdam Gopnik has been writing for The New Yorker since 1986. He is a three-time winner of the National Magazine Award for Essays and for Criticism and of the George Polk Award for Magazine Reporting. In March 2013, Gopnik was awarded the medal of Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Republic. We met in Montreal at the Blue Metropolis Literary Festival to discuss his book At the Strangers' Gate. Among other things we talk about bookshops, art in the 1980s, the art critic Robert Hughes, George Soros, ambition, Jeff Koons, morality versus mortality, value and...
2018-05-2553 min
Nigel Beale's Biblio File PodcastAdam Gopnik on art criticism, love, money and New YorkAdam Gopnik has been writing for The New Yorker since 1986. He is a three-time winner of the National Magazine Award for Essays and for Criticism and of the George Polk Award for Magazine Reporting. In March 2013, Gopnik was awarded the medal of Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Republic. We met in Montreal at the Blue Metropolis Literary Festival to discuss his book At the Strangers' Gate. Among other things we talk about bookshops, art in the 1980s, the art critic Robert Hughes, George Soros, ambition, Jeff Koons, morality versus mortality, value...
2018-05-2553 min
On BeingAdam Gopnik — Practicing Doubt, Redrawing FaithThe wise and lyrical writer Adam Gopnik muses on the ironies of spiritual life in a secular age through the lens of his many fascinations — from parenting, to the arts, to Darwin. He touches on all these things in a conversation inspired by his foreword to "The Good Book," in which novelists, essayists, and activists who are not known as religious thinkers write about their favorite biblical passages. Our ancestors acknowledged doubt while practicing faith, he says; we moderns are drawn to faith while practicing doubt.
2017-12-0751 min
On Being with Krista TippettAdam Gopnik — Practicing Doubt, Redrawing FaithThe wise and lyrical writer Adam Gopnik muses on the ironies of spiritual life in a secular age through the lens of his many fascinations — from parenting, to the arts, to Darwin. He touches on all these things in a conversation inspired by his foreword to “The Good Book,” in which novelists, essayists, and activists who are not known as religious thinkers write about their favorite biblical passages. Our ancestors acknowledged doubt while practicing faith, he says; we moderns are drawn to faith while practicing doubt.
2017-12-0751 minOn Being with Krista TippettAdam Gopnik — Practicing Doubt, Redrawing FaithThe wise and lyrical writer Adam Gopnik muses on the ironies of spiritual life in a secular age through the lens of his many fascinations — from parenting, to the arts, to Darwin. He touches on all these things in a conversation inspired by his foreword to “The Good Book,” in which novelists, essayists, and activists who are not known as religious thinkers write about their favorite biblical passages. Our ancestors acknowledged doubt while practicing faith, he says; we moderns are drawn to faith while practicing doubt.
2017-12-0751 minOn Being with Krista Tippett[Unedited] Adam Gopnik with Krista TippettThe wise and lyrical writer Adam Gopnik muses on the ironies of spiritual life in a secular age through the lens of his many fascinations — from parenting, to the arts, to Darwin. He touches on all these things in a conversation inspired by his foreword to “The Good Book,” in which novelists, essayists, and activists who are not known as religious thinkers write about their favorite biblical passages. Our ancestors acknowledged doubt while practicing faith, he says; we moderns are drawn to faith while practicing doubt. This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Bei...
2017-12-071h 38On Being with Krista Tippett[Unedited] Adam Gopnik with Krista TippettThe wise and lyrical writer Adam Gopnik muses on the ironies of spiritual life in a secular age through the lens of his many fascinations — from parenting, to the arts, to Darwin. He touches on all these things in a conversation inspired by his foreword to “The Good Book,” in which novelists, essayists, and activists who are not known as religious thinkers write about their favorite biblical passages. Our ancestors acknowledged doubt while practicing faith, he says; we moderns are drawn to faith while practicing doubt. This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Bei...
2017-12-071h 38
On Being with Krista Tippett[Unedited] Adam Gopnik with Krista TippettThe wise and lyrical writer Adam Gopnik muses on the ironies of spiritual life in a secular age through the lens of his many fascinations — from parenting, to the arts, to Darwin. He touches on all these things in a conversation inspired by his foreword to “The Good Book,” in which novelists, essayists, and activists who are not known as religious thinkers write about their favorite biblical passages. Our ancestors acknowledged doubt while practicing faith, he says; we moderns are drawn to faith while practicing doubt. This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On...
2017-12-071h 38On Being with Krista TippettAdam Gopnik — Practicing Doubt, Redrawing FaithThe wise and lyrical writer Adam Gopnik muses on the ironies of spiritual life in a secular age through the lens of his many fascinations — from parenting, to the arts, to Darwin. He touches on all these things in a conversation inspired by his foreword to “The Good Book,” in which novelists, essayists, and activists who are not known as religious thinkers write about their favorite biblical passages. Our ancestors acknowledged doubt while practicing faith, he says; we moderns are drawn to faith while practicing doubt. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswiz...
2017-12-0751 min
Live Wire with Luke Burbank“Brave New World” with Adam Gopnik, Elena Passarello, and BlossomLuke Burbank reflects on the lessons he learned from a day without his iPhone, New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik shares his 40-year nostalgia theory and how sex with a long-term partner can reach civil war reenactment status, essayist Elena Passarello coins the term “animalsonified” while examining humans’ complicated relationships with famed mammals, and RnB singer Blossom performs the brand new track, “Possibilities.”
2017-11-2058 min
Faith Middleton Food Schmooze2-Ingredient Biscuits, a Fresh Rosé & Adam GopnikA surprise ingredient is coming to a pizza near you. What could it possibly be? Also this week, New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik joins the party to talk about “The Most Beautiful Room in New York,” his new musical about food and family. Plus, Mark pours a summery rosé (yes, it’s affordable), and we revisit 2-ingredient cream biscuits for Mother’s Day. You want to stay on mom’s good side, don’t you? Faith also shares her recipe for Lemony Arugula Pasta with Prosciutto.Support the show: https://foodschmooze.org/donate/See omnystudio.com/listener...
2017-05-1047 min
PEN AmericaThe Elegance of the Hedgehog: Muriel Barbery in Conversation with Adam GopnikMuriel Barbery, the author of the award-winning international best-seller The Elegance of the Hedgehog, a novel that The Washington Post called "exceptionally winning." Barbery joined by the New Yorker magazine's Adam Gopnik for a discussion about the mysteries of childhood, the novel as philosophical fable, and why one Parisian psychotherapist is prescribing Muriel's novel to her patients.
2017-05-0959 min