Inside Adam Gopnik's Kitchen
The Food Section (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Inside the kitchen of New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik, who is currently working on a collection of food essays tentatively titled The Table Comes First.
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The New Yorker (Free subscription) | 12/10/2009
In the postwar years, America was unduly blessed by its art dealers, who offered an open door to the avant-garde, and by its fashion magazines, in which a handful of photographers managed to turn fashion pictures into another kind of high art. Chief among them was Irving Penn, who . . .
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Michael Jackson is the Gauguin of Basketball
Adventures of Hoogrrl! (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
Rafael Valero writes about Adam Gopnik's recent talk at The Phillips Collection about moral luck and how it plays out in success as an artist. Read it HERE .
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Ingres with a Leica
Memex 1.1 (Free subscription) | 25/10/2009
The New Yorker carried an elegant tribute to Irving Penn by Adam Gopnik. In the postwar years, America was unduly blessed by its art dealers, who offered an open door to the avant-garde, and by its fashion magazines, in which a handful of photographers managed to turn fashion pictures into another kind of high art. Chief [...]
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This Christmas, Let 92Y Save You Over $199,800.00
92Y Blog (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
... here earlier this year with Robert Krulwich , and will be back on Feb 16 , with coincidentally, Adam Gopnik, who is next on the Neiman Marcus list. Adam Gopnik will be here on Feb 16 as noted above, and was here in 2007 for the 92Y Blogger’s Reception. John Lithgow Anna Deavere Smith was here last year with six other award-winning playwrights. George Stephanopoulos...
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Best Book of All Time to be Discussed at Columbia
Emdashes (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
Jonathan Taylor writes: Next Wednesday, October 28, the Center for Fiction is sponsoring a discussion of Proust's Á la recherche du temps perdu in English, at Columbia's Maison Française , with Antoine Compagnon and The New Yorker 's Adam Gopnik. (Full details below the jump—seating is limited, so RSVP to join this "little clan.") Warm up with a little combative...
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First-Person Masculine
New York Times (Free subscription) | 17/10/2009
The title of this book, “Manhood for Amateurs,” suggests another entrant in the growing catalog of Dad Lit. This genre, which might also be called Dadsploitation, has in recent times seen such gifted writers as Michael Lewis () and Adam Gopnik () turn their attention to the domestic front — the idea being that in their skilled hands, the non-unique experience of fatherhood can be turned...
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Irving Penn
The New Yorker - Arts and Culture (Free subscription) | 12/10/2009
In this week’s issue, Adam Gopnik the photographer and New Yorker contributor Irving Penn, who died last week, at the age of ninety-two. Penn was, Gopnik writes, “an instinctive popular classicist, with a magical gift for visual rhythm, for making something insignificant—a pattern of cigarettes and ashes, each ash miraculously in its one best place—look as formally inevitable as...
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What's in This Week's New Yorker: 10.19.09
Emdashes (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
... & Murmurs, Ellis Weiner imagines a downsized, digitized marketing plan for a forthcoming book. Adam Gopnik looks back on Irving Penn's life and legacy. Joan Acocella reads Hilary Mantel's Man Booker Prize-winning Wolf Hall . Daniel Zalewski asks why the kids are in charge in today's picture books. James Wood contemplates Lydia Davis's "very, very short stories." John Lahr reviews...
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Villains We Love: Mr. Potter, 'It's a Wonderful Life'
Cinematical (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
I think it's time we all took another look at Mr. Henry F. Potter, the heartless businessman played by Lionel Barrymore in the 1946 classic holiday film It's a Wonderful Life . Yes, he's a crotchety old slumlord who wants to buy out the Bailey Building and Loan and not let "lazy rabble" have mortgages, but in the current economy, you have to wonder if some of his policies made sense. Adam...
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Neiman Marcus Unveils 2009 Christmas Book
Luxist (Free subscription) | 07/10/2009
... including Christopher Buckley, Roz Chast, Nora Ephron , Malcolm Gladwell , Henry Louis Gates Jr., Adam Gopnik, John Lithgow, Anna Deavere Smith and George Stephanopoulos. Proceeds to benefit First Book, the 2009 Christmas Book Charity. 2010 Jaguar XJL Supercharged Neiman Marcus Edition, $105,000: Limited to only 50 examples, the bespoke version of Jag's new flagship features a supercharged...
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New Dreyfus Book Out
My Right Word (Free subscription) | 01/10/2009
From a review by Adam Gopnik on “Why the Dreyfus Affair Matters” by Louis Begley: ...in the fall of 1894, Dreyfus became the accidental victim of a stupid plot, which was not, in its origins, anti-Semitic. The French Section de Statistique—the Army’s intelligence service—had an agent within the German Embassy: a cleaning woman who every night emptied the...
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Gleanings from the Web This Week
Boston 1775 (Free subscription) | 01/10/2009
Today I’m passing on some choice passages from items about the eighteenth century I’ve recently read. First, Adam Gopnik commented in the New Yorker on the historical basis of Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol : Much of it is bogus, to be sure—though modern Masonry borrowed some oogah-boogah from the Egyptian past, it was an Enlightenment club, whose greatest product...
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Dear Diary: Can’t Think
The Daily Blague (Free subscription) | 02/10/2009
... at wackos like John Perry, but frankly, I can’t manage so much as a tepid “heh.” Something that Adam Gopnik said about the Dreyfus Affair in a recent New Yorker has lodged in my mind. In any modernized country, the backward-looking party will always tend toward resentment and grievance. The key is to keep the conservatives feeling that they are an alternative party of modernity. (This...
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Best line of the day that can be applied to so many of life’s circumstances
NewMexiKen (Free subscription) | 29/09/2009
“[I]t’s all a lot of fun until somebody cries.” Adam Gopnik, quoting an anonymous mother, in a review of Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol