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Author:
Adam Gopnik
Publisher:
Liveright
Date:
March 14, 2023
New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik investigates a foundational human question: How do we learnâand masterâa new skill?
What The Reviewers Say
Gopnik...isn’t the first author to emerge victorious from the American tournament of achievement only to discern its spiritual emptiness. But his contribution to an antidote feels original, and mercifully within reach.
The book I was expecting was something closer to a confessional memoir: a critic at the height of an illustrious career finally admitting which of his assumptions and judgments had been wrong.
That phrase, 'the real work,' comes from Gopnik’s fascinating glimpse into the world of magic, a trade in which the normal obscurities of skill acquisition are rendered even more opaque.
Via memoir, analysis and criticism he assembles a celebration of the flaws that make us human.
