Adam Gopnik

Bio

Adam Gopnik is a writer and essayist who is known for writing about life, especially in New York and Paris. He has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1986 and has written fiction, humor, book reviews, profiles, and reported pieces from abroad. His books include Paris to the Moon, The King in the Window, Winter: Five Windows on the Season, and At the Strangers’ Gate. In 2013, Gopnik was awarded the medal of Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters. He lectures widely and opened his first musical, The Most Beautiful Room In New York, in 2017. His performance series, The History of the World in 100 Performances, resumes at Lincoln Center this Spring. Here Gopnik talks about his memories of New York City, aggression in art, and why he would rather visit the past than the future.