Adam Gopnik

Adam Gopnik has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1987. During his three decades at the magazine, he has written fiction, humor, memoirs, critical essays, and reported pieces from at home and abroad. His many books include "The Table Comes First", "Paris To The Moon","Through The Children's Gate " and , most recently, " At The Strangers' Gate." A musical , written in collaboration with the composer David Shire, " The Most Beautiful Room In New York" , opened last May at the Long Wharf Theater in New Haven, and his one man show "The Gates" , based on material developed with The Moth, played for a sold out week at New York's Public Theater in January.

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Adam Gopnik

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The Missing Pants

by Adam Gopnik

A writer loses a treasured pair of pants.

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The Pieties of Perspiration

by Adam Gopnik

Adam Gopnik battle liberal guilt with his son in a sauna.

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LOL

by Adam Gopnik

A father learns to laugh out loud.

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Charlie Ravioli

by Adam Gopnik

A writer details his daughter’s cosmopolitan imaginary friend. 

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Rare Romance, Well-Done Marriage

by Adam Gopnik

A husband and wife's ongoing argument comes to a head.

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