Anthony Lane: “Coco Before Chanel” and “Walt & El Grupo.” Sep 22, 2009
Adam Gopnik discusses the Dreyfus affair, then and now. The fall season s theatre, art, and television highlights. (New Yorker)
Brooklyn Dodger Sep 21, 2009
HBO s Bored to Death review : The New Yorker (New Yorker)
'moth' Spreads Wings To Radio Aug 27, 2009
Tune in and you might hear a disabled woman talk about falling in love with an "Italian Stallion" right next to a story by New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik, who reveals how he mistook the IM abbreviation LOL to mean "lots of love.". "Storytelling, if it's done well, looks easy and is done off the cuff, but that's far from the truth," says Thau. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Date Lines: News from the Bay Area arts scene Jun 18, 2009
Also on the schedule: Nick Hornby, Oct. 8; Oates, Oct. 19; A.S. Byatt, Oct. 26; Jonathan Lethem, Oct. 28; Chabon talking with Adam Gopnik, Nov. 9; Barbara Kingsolver, Nov. 17; and Zoe Heller, Dec. 2. All events are at the Herbst Theatre unless otherwise noted. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Adam Gopnik honored at 'Booked' event Jun 16, 2009
Writer, critic, and cultural commentator Adam Gopnik received the eleventh annual Westport Public Library Award at the Library's most exclusive fundraising gala ... Adam Gopnik has been writing for The New Yorker since 1986. (Westport Minuteman, CT)
Sundancechannel.com Tells 10 'High Line Stories' May 15, 2009
1: Adam Gopnik of The New Yorker; 2. Adrian Benepe, commissioner, New York City Department of Parks & Recreation; 3. (Multichannel News)
Random House launches inaugural Open House May 7, 2009
Adam Gopnik is taking part in a sold-out discussion that includes Margaret MacMillan, John Ralston Saul and Naomi Klein ... One of the panels "A Crisis in Leadership" featuring The New Yorker's Adam Gopnik, historian Margaret MacMillan, author John Ralston Saul and Naomi Klein of No Logo/ The Shock Doctrine fame has seen its 425 tickets snapped up. (Globe and Mail)
Helen Levitt, 95; captured images of NYC street life Apr 1, 2009
The critic Adam Gopnik, writing in The New Yorker in 2001, described Ms. Levitt as "the supreme poet-photographer of the streets and people of New York.". Her images, taken primarily in Spanish Harlem, Yorkville, and the Lower East Side, present a dynamic city, but one that is also mysterious and vaguely menacing. (Boston Globe)
Author Elaine Showalter at Harvard Book Store Apr 1, 2009
ON CHUCK AND ABE New Yorker staff writer Adam Gopnik discusses his book "Angels and Ages," which explains the overarching influence of Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln (who shared the same birthday) on modern life, tomorrow at 7 p.m., at Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard St.. THE BARD'S BETTER HALF Germaine Greer, noted feminist and authority on early English literature, combines both interests in her book "Shakespeare's Wife," in which she works to flesh out what little is known of the bard's... (Boston Globe)
Drawing upon a different perspective Mar 24, 2009
A few weeks after that Mr. Rank held an exhibition of his work, which Adam Gopnik in The New Yorker called "a unique meditation on history.". Was he surprised by the sudden acclaim. (International Herald Tribune)
Paradox Was His Doxy Mar 24, 2009
This charge was recently revived by Adam Gopnik in the New Yorker of July 7, 2008. The accusation could more justly be made against Chesterton s younger brother Cecil or against Hilaire Belloc. (The American Conservative)
Midwives to modernity Mar 15, 2009
Lincoln and Darwin "have never been more present," Adam Gopnik, a contributor to the New Yorker, points out in "Angels and Ages," his elegant and engrossing bicentennial twin portrait. With reputations reduced to single words - Emancipation and Evolution - they have supplanted Marx and Freud as indispensable icons in the modern imagination. (Boston Globe)
Evolving views on Darwin Mar 7, 2009
New Yorker essayist Adam Gopnik will devour the Desmond and Moore book: it is the missing scholarly link between anti-slaver Darwin and the great emancipationist, Abraham Lincoln, who mounted a bloody civil war over the question of race and slavery. In his book on the pair, born the same day, Gopnik asks: what do Darwin and Lincoln say about, and to, the modern world. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Progressive Book Club Chooses Angels and Ages by Adam Gopnik as March PBC Pick Mar 5, 2009
announces that its PBC Pick for the month of March is : A Short Book About Lincoln, Darwin, and Modern Life by Adam Gopnik. New York, NY (PRWEB) March 5, 2009 -- On a memorable day in human history, February 12, 1809, two babies were born an ocean apart: Abraham Lincoln in a one-room Kentucky log cabin; Charles Darwin on an English country estate. (Yahoo News -- Press Releases)
Des revives Dolls on Broadway Mar 2, 2009
The New Yorker's Adam Gopnik recently argued that the musical "is so good that it can triumph over amateur players and high-school longueurs"; I'd agree I'm certain even a shipwrecked and half-starved cast could sell it. Des McAnuff's flashy new Broadway revival of the show certainly proves the musical's resilience it can survive miscast B-list stars as well, not to mention uneven direction. (Globe and Mail)
Darwin the Liberator How evolutionary thought undermined the ... Feb 14, 2009
Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln have been spotted together a lot recently -- in a by the New Yorker's Adam Gopnik, in a , even on the -- because they happen to have been born on the same day 200 years ago: Feb. 12, 1809. After noting that coincidence, however, commentators often miss the most direct connection between the bicentennial birthday boys: Each, in his own way, fought vigorously against slavery. (Washington Post)
Angels and Ages: How Darwin and Lincoln Ushered in the Modern World Feb 12, 2009
" With their adherence to logic and observation, and devotion to thoughtful expression, Lincoln and Darwin in addition to everything else the accomplished helped kickstart the engine of the modern age. Highlight Reel: 1. On the origin of Lincoln's facility with words: "The frontier America of Lincoln's youth was first of all a rhetorical society, where the ability to speak in public, at length was central to social ambitions; giving a speech in 1838 in Illinois was the equivalent of putting on a... (TIME)
Eric Simons - frolicking in Darwin's footsteps Feb 11, 2009
-- Angels and Ages: A Short Book About Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life, by Adam Gopnik (Alfred A. Knopf). While Chasing Beetles, Finding Darwin: QUEST, the KQED multimedia project, follows researchers unlocking fresh mysteries of evolution. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Griffin: Reflections on John Updike Feb 10, 2009
In the current issue of the New Yorker, one of his editors, Adam Gopnik, tells of Updike mailing in stories to the magazine accompanied by a letter commenting on each piece s inadequacies. During his nearly 60 years of writing for this publication, successive editors would grow accustomed to these superfluous cautions. (Cambridge Chronicle, MA)
Chronicle best-sellers Feb 8, 2009
ANGELS AND AGES, Adam Gopnik (Knopf; 224 pages; $24. 95): A comparison of Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln and how they changed the world. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Tuesdays With Morbidity Feb 8, 2009
Best Updike ObituaryThe New Yorker offers a from Roger Angell, John Updike's editor at the magazine, and an from Adam Gopnik, both of which capture the significance of the man. a former Slate intern, is a reporter at the Baton Rouge Advocate. (Slate)
