Location: Horchow Auditorium
Adam Gopnik, three-time National Magazine Award–winning critic of art, food, France, and more, recently became obsessed with wondering how the people he was writing about learned their outlandish skill, whether it was drawing a nude or baking a sourdough loaf. In The Real Work, Gopnik apprentices himself to an artist, a dancer, a boxer, and even a driving instructor, to try his hand at things he assumed were beyond him.