Adam Gopnik

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Right now, let's talk to Adam Gopnik about what's on his mind this week.

Adam, what's up this week?

Most of the book is set in New York.

The American writer and essayist Adam Gopnik wrote, no book has ever captured a city better than Catcher in the Rye captured New York in the 50s.

Wow.

Which is a big statement.

He gets sent to a military academy called Valley Forge in Pennsylvania.

And there he writes stories under the bedclothes at night.

So that's the origins of his life as a writer.

But he's not a great academic star by any means.

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Adam, what's up this week? Well, Chris, I've been exploring what the great food debates of our time are so that I would not merely be indulging in my own frivolous philosophical speculations, but be addressing directly the things that really matter to our listeners.

I'd like to ask you about France.

And Adam Gopnik of The New Yorker, who lived there for a number of years, just said in the last few days that what's happened conforms to a classic pattern of far-left and far-right politics in France and in Europe generally.

What it will most likely do—and this is the most frightening part, he says— is bring the far right to power.

There was already a very real prospect that Marine Le Pen and the National Rally Party would be able to win elections next year.

... have, have gone.

Um, I guess unless you're Adam Gopnik.

Y- as you mentioned, Parker in some ways dismissed that because she didn't like being seen as, uh, a kind of a quip machine.

She was, she was very well-known for a lot of her quotes.