Adam Gopnik, beloved critic of art, food, France, and more, recently became obsessed with a fundamental matter: how did the people he was writing about master their unique skill, whether it was drawing a nude or baking a sourdough loaf? In The Real Work, Gopnik shares his journey of apprenticing himself to an artist, a dancer, a boxer, and even a driving instructor, to try his hand at things he assumed were beyond him. Exuberant and profound, The Real Work is ultimately about why we relentlessly seek to better ourselves in the first place.
Adam Gopnik is a staff writer at the New Yorker. He has won three National Magazine Awards for essays and for criticism. He is the author of numerous bestselling books, including Paris to the Moon.
"A masterful speculation on the nature and art of mastery.” ―Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
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