Russell Davies (Free subscription) | 06/12/2009
"He was an extremely English Englishman, with an Englishman's desire never to sound like a know-it-all coupled with the Englishman's conviction that he alone knows it all." From Angels and Ages.
Anti-Climacus (Free subscription) | 06/01/2009
QUOTE FOR THE DAY: From Adam Gopnik's essay on Chesterton from last year's New Yorker (no link, sorry--if you have a VPN, you can probably get it): The insistence that Chesterton's anti-Semitism needs to be understood "in the context of his time" defines the problem, because his time--from the end of the Great War to the mid-thirties--was the time that led to the extermination...
Firedoglake (Free subscription) | 05/23/2009
Whether by Providence or a random swerve of the atoms, it happened that Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin both were born on February 12, 1809. The bicentennial of this pregnant coincidence is the occasion for Adam Gopnik’s Angels and Ages: A Short Book about Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life. The title alludes to a resonant ambiguity over just what Edwin Stanton said at the president’s...
The Sartorialist (Free subscription) | 06/08/2009
Not so impressed by the reading material (aren't we done with Adam Gopnik yet'? please?), but the bike and especially her LEGS are unbeatable accessories! Did anyone see the recent little article in the Times, about personals in Craig's List by New Yorkers in love with people they saw on/with bikes? She looks like she would have inspired dozens on the day you caught her.
Wordsmith.org: Today's Word (Free subscription) | 06/05/2009
... the Cigarette Through Quarter trick by palming and replacing one gaffed quarter with another."Adam Gopnik; The Real Work; New Yorker; Mar 17, 2008."'They don't want to take the gaff when something goes wrong,' said Bud Long."A Dismal Record; The Fresno Bee (California); Aug 9, 1992. It is not life and wealth and power that enslave men, but the cleaving to life and wealth and power....
Atheist Media Blog (Free subscription) | 06/03/2009
May 20, 2009 by the NYPL - Full program Adam Gopnik, author of "Angels & Ages: A Short Book About Darwin, Lincoln and Modern Life" and Steven Pinker, author of "The Blank Slate" and many other...
core77.com (Free subscription) | 05/25/2009
From a recent New Yorker issue on Innovation, Adam Gopnik writes a lyrical piece about evolution and innovation , comparing the animal kingdom to the creative and business processes of making things. He starts off looking at the multi-bladed shaver, but the most evocative portion was about book lights, highly condensed for excerpting here: I have tried them all, without much success...Some...
Beattie's Book Blog (Free subscription) | 05/25/2009
Toni Morrison Has a Conversation 'Her partner will be Adam Gopnik, an essayist for The New Yorker, in a program at the Palisades Free Library featuring residents of the area.' By SUSAN HODARA in The New York Times, May 22, 2009 Many local libraries offer adult programs that feature notable community members. Yet rarely do they feature luminaries like Mikhail Baryshnikov and Aidan Quinn...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 05/27/2009
... tracks, which have been preserved in some spots and replaced by lush landscaping in others. As Adam Gopnik of The New Yorker so eloquently put it, "The High Line does not offer a God's-eye-view of the city, exactly, but something rarer, the view of a lesser angel: of a Cupid in a renaissance painting." It's a walking "park in the sky", and while we wended our way alongside the Standard...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 05/23/2009
Her partner will be Adam Gopnik, an essayist for The New Yorker, in a program at the Palisades Free Library featuring residents of the area.
New York Times (Free subscription) | 05/23/2009
Her partner will be Adam Gopnik, an essayist for The New Yorker, in a program at the Palisades Free Library featuring residents of the area.
