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Adam Gopnik

Staff writer at The New Yorker; essayist

United States · b. 1956

American essayist and staff writer at The New Yorker, author of Paris to the Moon and Angels and Ages.

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Question Whom do you read even though you disagree with them? Attention & the world read 25 other answers →
Writers we think are all wrong and want to read anyway come in two kinds: those who are good writers and bad thinkers — Christopher Hitchens, Norman Podhoretz, and Gore Vidal, each in his terribly different way, are instances of that — and those who may not be original stylists but who we admire for trying to be better thinkers than they were before, stumbling toward truth from a starting place very different from the one we happened to inherit. I disagree, for instance, with David Frum about almost everything, from Iraq to the legacy of Pierre Trudeau in our native Canada, but never doubt his integrity or desire to tell the truth about the world.

Recorded Sean Illing, Vox, “9 questions” series, 16 September 2017 source ↗

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