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Adam Gopnik, editor Americans in Paris: a Literary Anthology.(Book Review)
Adam Gopnik, editor Americans in Paris: A Literary Anthology. The Library of America, 656 pages, $40
Perhaps the only trope more tired than the American in Paris is the American writer in Paris. For years, Adam Gopnik, the last expatriate left standing at La Closerie des Lilas, beat his dead horse in the pages of The New Yorker. He collected his writings in a book called Paris to the Moon. Now there is Americans in Paris, a repackaging of American writers from Ben Franklin to Dorothea Tanning, edited by vous-know-who. Here, great writers become a succession of epithets from Let's Go, Paris! Abigail Adams is an "ur-WASP." Thomas Jefferson: "photogenic" and "the model student, the first on a Junior Year Abroad." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: a "doggerel rhymester." Hemingway, Pound, and Stein: the "Tinker, Evers, and Chance of the American Experience in ...
- At home in the big city; For Adam Gopnik, as both writer and dad, there is no...
- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor October 31, 2006 700+ words
Byline: Marjorie Kehe When Adam Gopnik was a young man first living in New York City...for The New Yorker, Gopnik left New York for Paris for five years (and wrote the wonderful "Paris to the Moon" about those experiences). But...
- Gladwell's tipping point.(Adam Gopnik and Malcolm Gladwell)(Brief article)
- Magazine article from: Washington Monthly Peters, Charles December 1, 2006 700+ words
...magazine published a debate on the Canadian health system between Adam Gopnik and Malcolm Gladwell. The reason I asked the two to debate...up one day and realized what much smarter people than me (Adam Gopnik) realized a long tune ago, which is that the idea of employer...
- Le gai savoir.(Americans in Paris: a Literary Anthology)(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: The Nation Wineapple, Brenda June 28, 2004 700+ words
AMERICANS IN PARIS: A Literary anthology. Edited by Adam Gopnik. Library of America. 613 pp. $40. "Paris is a very old story...by New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik, whose sojourn there was amiably recounted in Paris to the Moon, the Library...
- FROM PARIS TO THE MOON.(Review)
- Magazine article from: Washington Monthly Starr, Alexandra October 1, 2000 700+ words
FROM PARIS TO THE MOON by Adam Gopnik Random House, $24.95 PARIS HAS HELD A MAGNETIC PULL over Americans; personalities...home. Following in that tradition, New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik spent five years on the other side of the Atlantic...
- Paris to the Moon.(Rowing to Latitude: Journeys Along the Arctic's Edge; The...
- Magazine article from: The Christian Century Henry, Patrick September 25, 2002 700+ words
By Adam Gopnik. Random House, 338 pp., $14...Maps for Father's Day. I bought Paris to the Moon because Adam Gopnik's New Yorker essays had convinced...wife and young son Gopnik moved to Paris. Early on they saw, in a shop...
- Paris to the Moon.(Review) (book review)
- Magazine article from: Harper's Magazine Nehring, Cristina April 1, 2001 700+ words
Paris to the Moon, by Adam Gopnik. Random House, 2000. 338 pages. $24.95. Scoot...author of the world's coziest recent book on France, Paris to the Moon. He's come to reclaim Paris for the new homebodies, and, God knows, they are...
- Writer rummages in millennial Paris, trials to bistro wars.(Books)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times Tuttle, Erica October 29, 2000 700+ words
...moving his wife and infant son to Paris, New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik has published his recollections...Mr. Gopnik began a regular "Paris Journal" in the tradition of...is on the decline, and that Paris, once the seat of European...
- Americans in Paris.(The Reader Replies)(Letter to the Editor)
- Magazine article from: American Scholar Crowder, Tom June 22, 2004 700+ words
I saw Paris in the late 1940s and '50s, but not as one of Adam Gopnik's crusaders "with the fat dollar and a debt of gratitude to be repaid" ("Americans in Paris," Spring 2004). I view that entrancing city as the...
Source: HighBeam Research, Adam Gopnik, editor Americans in Paris: a Literary Anthology.(Book...