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episode 89 - Adam Gopnik - part 01

Journalist and cultural critic Adam Gopnik is a staff writer for The New Yorker, much admired for the mix of wit and feeling in his essays. Gopnik reveals how he broke out of the graduate student's academic voice and discovered his true style, observing that in an essay ideas and emotion are in constant dialogue. Gopnik discusses his five years in France, an experience that gave rise to his collection of essays Paris to the Moon, his subsequent work Through the Children's Gate, and his 2009 book Angels and Ages: A Short Book About Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life. Among other things, says Gopnik, Angels and Ages explores two contrasting views of life: do we live in a vertical universe controlled by divinity or a horizontal universe ordered by history? At the end of the interview, Adam Gopnik reveals a surprise: he would give up writing to be a jazz pianist.