Dawson College where Adam Gopnik studied.
McGill University where Adam Gopnik received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1980.
New York University Institute of Fine Arts where Adam Gopnik received his Master of Arts degree.
Adam Gopnik with Walter Issacson and Fran Lebowitz. Photograph Scott Wintrow.
On stage with Meg Wolitzer just now at SF City Arts & Lectures.
2013
Adam Gopnik receives the Medal of Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters.
National Magazine Award which Adam Gopnik received as the New Yorker editor.
2013
Adam Gopnik receives the Medal of Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters.
Dawson College where Adam Gopnik studied.
McGill University where Adam Gopnik received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1980.
New York University Institute of Fine Arts where Adam Gopnik received his Master of Arts degree.
Adam Gopnik with Walter Issacson and Fran Lebowitz. Photograph Scott Wintrow.
On stage with Meg Wolitzer just now at SF City Arts & Lectures.
National Magazine Award which Adam Gopnik received as the New Yorker editor.
Adam Gopnik at RĂ´tisserie Georgette.
2008
Adam Gopnik with his wife Martha Rebecca Parker.
Adam Gopnik with his daughter Olivia Gopnik.
Adam Gopnik's brother Blake Gopnik.
Adam Gopnik's sister Alison Gopnik.
Adam Gopnik's sister Morgan Gopnik.
Adam Gopnik's sister Melissa Gopnik.
(Paris. The name alone conjures images of chestnut-lined b...)
Paris. The name alone conjures images of chestnut-lined boulevards, sidewalk cafés, breathtaking façades around every corner--in short, an exquisite romanticism that has captured the American imagination for as long as there have been Americans.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000FC1JVC/?tag=2022091-20
2000
(Wayne Thiebaud, the California-based painter, has produce...)
Wayne Thiebaud, the California-based painter, has produced works of complexity and distinction that appear deceptively simple in terms of subject matter and in their presentation yet draw on many historical sources. It is the first major survey in fifteen years of work by this famous American figurative artist. An extended essay by Adam Gopnik, the Paris Journal writer for The New Yorker, links Thiebaud to American writing as a painter in the tradition of Walt Whitman, William Carlos Williams, and John Updike.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0500092923/?tag=2022091-20
2000
(From the earliest years of the American republic, Paris h...)
From the earliest years of the American republic, Paris has provoked an extraordinary American literary response. This anthology ranges from the crucial early impressions of Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin to the latter-day reflections of writers as varied as James Baldwin, Isadora Duncan, and Jack Kerouac. Americans in Paris is a diverse and constantly engaging mosaic, full of revealing cultural gulfs and misunderstandings, personal and literary experimentation, and profound moments of self-discovery.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1931082561/?tag=2022091-20
2004
(Oliver Parker is a ten-year-old American boy miserably tr...)
Oliver Parker is a ten-year-old American boy miserably trapped in Paris, where his father is stationed as a journalist. Intimidated by his French school and its prickly teachers, oppressed by gray and wintry Paris, and feeling curiously remote from his father-who spends more and more time staring dully into his computer screen-Oliver longs to return to America.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/078681862X/?tag=2022091-20
2005
(In his sketches and glimpses of people and places, Gopnik...)
In his sketches and glimpses of people and places, Gopnik builds a portrait of our altered New York: the changes in manners, the way children are raised, our plans for and accounts of ourselves, and how life moves forward after tragedy. Rich with Gopnik’s signature charm, wit, and joie de vivre here is the most under-examined corner of the romance of New York: our struggle to turn the glamorous metropolis that seduces us into the home we cannot imagine leaving.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000YJ54HQ/?tag=2022091-20
2006
(In this book, Gopnik reveals Darwin and Lincoln as they r...)
In this book, Gopnik reveals Darwin and Lincoln as they really were: family men and social climbers, ambitious manipulators and courageous adventurers, grieving parents and brilliant scholars. Above all we see them as thinkers and writers, making and witnessing the great changes in thought that mark truly modern times.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001NLKYAQ/?tag=2022091-20
2009
(Rose lives in New York, the city of bright lights and exc...)
Rose lives in New York, the city of bright lights and excitement—where extraordinary things happen every day. But Rose wasn’t born in New York; she was adopted and arrived there at age two; and though Rose loves her home and her adopted family, sometimes she can’t help but feel different like she’s meant to be somewhere else.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/142311213X/?tag=2022091-20
2010
(In this book, Adam Gopnik takes us on a beguiling journey...)
In this book, Adam Gopnik takes us on a beguiling journey. It is a journey that begins in eighteenth-century France—the birthplace of our modern tastes - and carries us to the kitchens of the White House, the molecular meccas of Barcelona, and beyond. To understand why so many of us apparently live to eat, Gopnik delves into the most burning questions of our time. The Table Comes First is the delightful beginning of a new conversation about the way we eat now.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004KPM1EY/?tag=2022091-20
2011
(The 2011 CBC Massey Lectures celebrates fifty years with ...)
The 2011 CBC Massey Lectures celebrates fifty years with bestselling author, essayist, cultural observer, and famed New Yorker contributor Adam Gopnik, whose subject is winter -- the season, space, the cycle. Gopnik takes us on an intimate tour of the artists, poets, composers, writers, explorers, scientists, and thinkers, who helped shape a new and modern idea of winter. Here we learn how a poem by William Cowper heralds the arrival of the middle class; how snow science leads to existential questions of God and our place in the world; how the race to the poles marks the human drive to imprint meaning on a blank space. Gopnik’s kaleidoscopic work ends in the present day, when he traverses the underground city in Montreal, pondering the future of Northern culture.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00IN8P5EC/?tag=2022091-20
2011
(It is a memoir that captures the romance of New York City...)
It is a memoir that captures the romance of New York City in the 1980s. Through a series of comic mini-anthropologies that capture the fashion, publishing, and art worlds of the era, Adam Gopnik transports us from his tiny basement room on the Upper East Side to a SoHo loft, from his time as a graduate student-cum-library-clerk to the galleries of MoMA. Filled with tender and humorous reminiscences - including affectionate reflections on Richard Avedon, Robert Hughes, and Jeff Koons, among many others - At the Strangers’ Gate is an ode to New York striving.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01N9GAU9U/?tag=2022091-20
2017
(In Mid-Air is a collection of short essays by the acclaim...)
In Mid-Air is a collection of short essays by the acclaimed writer and speaker, Adam Gopnik. Known for his ability to perceive the whole world in a grain of sand, he uses this format to take a dizzying range of subjects and intricately explore their meaning to our lives - as people, as citizens, and as families. As in their original form on the radio, Gopnik's essays - each one a pleasure garden of wry confessions, self-deprecating asides, wordplay, and striking insights - feel like the most intimate of conversations between writer and reader; yet at the same time, they capture a public forum of pithy debate and tender persuasion.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1786489228/?tag=2022091-20
2018
(Taking us from Montaigne to Mill, and from Middlemarch to...)
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 rights. It is something far more ambitious: the search for radical change by humane measures. Gopnik shows us why liberalism is one of the great moral adventures in human history - and why, in an age of autocracy, our lives may depend on its continuation.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07H2B4WQW/?tag=2022091-20
2019
Adam Gopnik was born on August 24, 1956, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. He is the son of Irwin Gopnik, and Myrna Gopnik, both former professors at McGill University. The family moved to Montreal, Quebec, Canada in 1967. Gopnik grew up with five siblings, four of whom went on to earn doctorates in one field or another.
Adam Gopnik graduated from high school at the age of fourteen. He then studied at Dawson College. Further, Gopnik went to McGill University. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1980. At McGill University he contributed to The McGill Daily as well. Then an aficionado of fifteenth-century Italian art Gopnik enrolled at New York University Institute of Fine Arts and received his Master of Arts degree in art history.
Adam Gopnik began his career in 1983 at GQ magazine as a part-time fashion copy editor, then he worked as a fiction editor. Then in 1985, he took the position of an editor at publishing house Alfred A. Knopf in New York City.
In 1987 he began his long association with The New Yorker with a piece that would show his future range, a consideration of connections among baseball, childhood, and Renaissance art. He has written for four New Yorker editors: William Shawn, Robert Gottlieb, Tina Brown, and David Remnick. He worked there as an art critic. In recent years of his work at New Yorker, he wrote extensively about gun control and gun violence in the United States. In 1990 Gopnik with his friend Kirk Varnedoe curated the High/Low show at New York's Museum of Modern Art.
In 1995 he became a correspondent of Paris magazine. Gopnik continued to contribute to The New Yorker as a staff writer. He later wrote an article for Search Magazine on the connection between religion and art and the compatibility of Christianity and Darwinism. He states in the article that the arts of human history are products of religious thought and that human conduct is not guaranteed by religion or secularism.
Adam Gopnik published a lot of books including famous Paris to the Moon, The King in the Window, Angels and Ages, Angels and Ages, The Steps Across the Water, The Table Comes First.
In addition to his work as a writer, Adam has been an active lecturer. He has given lectures and readings in almost every major American city, and some smaller ones, too, from Jackson, Mississippi to Seattle, Washington.
Working on musical projects he began in 2015 as a lyricist and libretto writer. With the composer, David Shire he has written book and lyrics for the musical comedy Table inspired by the book The Table Comes First. He also wrote the libretto for Nico Muhly's oratorio Sentences. Other projects include collaborating on a one-woman show for the soprano Melissa Errico, Sing the Silence, and co-writing new songs with David Shire, Scott Frankel, and Peter Mills. Future projects include a new musical with Scott Frankel.
(In his sketches and glimpses of people and places, Gopnik...)
2006(Taking us from Montaigne to Mill, and from Middlemarch to...)
2019(Wayne Thiebaud, the California-based painter, has produce...)
2000(The 2011 CBC Massey Lectures celebrates fifty years with ...)
2011(In this book, Gopnik reveals Darwin and Lincoln as they r...)
2009(Oliver Parker is a ten-year-old American boy miserably tr...)
2005(From the earliest years of the American republic, Paris h...)
2004(Rose lives in New York, the city of bright lights and exc...)
2010(In Mid-Air is a collection of short essays by the acclaim...)
2018(It is a memoir that captures the romance of New York City...)
2017(In this book, Adam Gopnik takes us on a beguiling journey...)
2011(Paris. The name alone conjures images of chestnut-lined b...)
2000Adam Gopnik gets too emotional about political issues. If he races across a room, he has just read something about Trump. He believes that turning ideas into feelings is the thing an essayist is supposed to do, but political punditry should probably be more detached.
Adam Gopnik was a vehement proponent of what has been called the standard orthodoxy on American imprisonment and the epidemic of incarceration, which many believe to be the moral crisis of our time. Briefly, it was the view that the epidemic of incarceration, among minorities particularly, had to do with “Draconian” drug laws and mandatory sentencing and private prison contractors. Then he read John Pfaff’s book and articles showing, with evidence that seems to him irrefutable - and taking a shot or two at him along the way - that however horrific the epidemic might be, these were not its cause. He read the book, saw the facts, swallowed hard, and wrote a piece saying that he was wrong and he was right and was glad to have written it.
Quotations:
“Wit and puns aren't just decor in the mind; they're essential signs that the mind knows it's on, recognizes its own software, can spot the bugs in its own program.”
“I love you forever' really means 'Just trust me for now,' which is all it ever means, and we just hope to keep renewing the "now," year after year.”
“American long for a closed society in which everything can be bought, where laborers are either hidden away or dressed up as nonhumans, so as not to be disconcerting. This place is called Disney World.”
“Love, like light, is a thing that is enacted better than defined: we know it afterward by the traces it leaves on paper.”
“The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time to understand what it means to be alive.”
Adam Gopnik is the Moyse traveling fellow.
Adam Gopnik married Martha Rebecca Parker on August 15, 1981. They have two children.
Blake Gopnik was born in 1963. He began his career as an academic, with a doctorate from Oxford, but since 1998 has been chief art critic at the Globe and Mail in Toronto, the Washington Post, and Newsweek. He's now critic-at-large for artnet News and a regular contributor to the New York Times.
Alison Gopnik was born on June 16, 1955. She is a professor of psychology and affiliate professor of philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley. She is an international leader in the field of children’s learning and was one of the first cognitive scientists to show how developmental psychology could help solve ancient philosophical problems.
Morgan Gopnik is an expert on ocean and coastal policy, with a particular focus on integrated marine spatial planning. Dr. Gopnik served as director of the Ocean Studies Board at the National Academy of Sciences, as senior advisor to the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy, and as Senior Vice President for Programs at the Ocean Conservancy. Currently, Dr. Gopnik provides consulting services for private foundations, national associations, academic institutions, and nonprofit organizations.
Hilary Gopnik is a Near Eastern archaeologist who specializes in the study of Iron Age Iran and the South Caucasus, with a focus on the Medes.
Melissa Gopnik is a Senior Vice President at Commonwealth. In this role, she leads the Design, Piloting, and Evaluation functions.
