Adam Gopnik
Adam Gopnik
Adam Gopnikis an American writer and essayist. 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—and as the author of the essay collection Paris to the Moon, an account of five years that Gopnik, his wife Martha, and son Luke spent in the French capital...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
CountryUnited States of America
scandal brutality moral
The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.
drawing shapes shade
Lose your schematic conventions by finding some surprising symbol or shape in the welter of shades, and draw that.
choices-made mind easy
Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind.
eerie space long
In the New Yorker library, I have long been shelved between Nadine Gordimer and Brendan Gill; an eerie little space nestled between high seriousness of purpose and legendary lightness of touch.
stuff way bookstores
In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
spinning rewards carousels
After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn't be carousels if it weren't so.