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	Amazon.de: Paris to the Moon (Thorndike Nonfiction): English Books: Adam Gopnik (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Gopnik falls in unabashed love with what he calls Paris's commonplace civilisation--the cafés, the little shops, the ancient carousel in the park and the small, intricate experiences that happen in such settings.
		Gopnik makes terrific use of his status as an observer on the fringes of fashionable society to draw some deft comparisons between Paris and New York ("It is as if all American appliances dreamed of being cars while all French appliances dreamed of being telephones") and do some incisive philosophising on the nature of both.
		Gopnik makes terrific use of his status as an observer on the fringes of fashionable society to draw some deft comparisons between Paris and New York ("It is as if all American appliances dreamed of being cars while all French appliances dreamed of being telephones") and do some incisive philosophizing on the nature of both.
	www.amazon.de /Paris-Thorndike-Nonfiction-Adam-Gopnik/dp/0783893981 (662 words)

	Paris to the Moon - Adam Gopnik - Used Books
		In 1995, Adam Gopnik, his wife, and their infant son left the familiar comforts and hassles of New York City for the urbane glamour of the City of Light.
		Gopnik is a longtime New Yorker writer, and the magazine has sent its writers to Paris for decades--but his was above all a personal pilgrimage to the place that had for so long been the undisputed capital of everything cultural and beautiful.
		With singular wit and insight, Gopnik weaves the magical with the mundane in a wholly delightful, often hilarious look at what it was to be an American family man in Paris at the end of the twentieth century.
	www.biblio.com /books/100413576.html (810 words)

	Montreal Mirror : Books : Adam Gopnik
		Adam Gopnik is best known for his hilarious, erudite essays in The New Yorker and for his bestseller, Paris To the Moon.
		And I have to work to detach Gopnik from a conversation about the demise of the Expos, where he’s even ready to defend the Big O. True, I fired this up by challenging his theory that the Yankees are the new Expos.
		Gopnik’s version of stupid, however, may in fact be the secret of his writing.
	www.montrealmirror.com /2006/113006/books.html (560 words)

	The New Yorker's Adam Gopnik started a novel and -- behold -- a kids' book emerged
		When Adam Gopnik was growing up in an old house in Philadelphia, before his family moved to Montreal when he was 12, he wasn't allowed to read past a certain time at night.
		Gopnik started the book in 1997, when he was living in Paris and filing his "Paris Journal" pieces to the New Yorker, where he's been on staff for nearly 20 years.
		For 10 years, Gopnik has been in the unusual position of explaining the French and French culture to Americans, in his New Yorker dispatches and "Paris to the Moon," then in the stellar anthology he edited, "Americans in Paris." "The King in the Window" may be his last book on the City of Light.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/11/09/DDGPVFKFEG1.DTL (1380 words)

	Amazon.ca: Paris to the Moon: Books: Adam Gopnik (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Gopnik is a Paris romantic, but doubts that the city remains the international capital of culture.
		Gopnik, the wise father, perfectly reads the situation, seeing eros engulf his little child, and supports the situation so that his son fully experiences this first taste of the honey and sting of the beautiful other.The children order expensive hot chocolate every day after swimming, which Gopnik endulges.
		Gopnik worships the same type of pretensions I learned were unappealing after a few short months in the city of light.
	www.amazon.ca /Paris-Moon-Adam-Gopnik/dp/0375758232 (2022 words)

	SALON Daily Clicks: Media Circus
		Gopnik is perhaps the closest thing that today's New Yorker has to a public intellectual, weighing in with sober assessments of everything from art exhibitions to the Beatles revival to the Oklahoma City bombing (in a lead editorial bearing the raffish title "Violence as Style").
		Gopnik immerses himself (and his readers) in the mundane details of his life — writing about such topics as Parisian apartment-hunting, Parisian fashion gatherings, even workouts at Parisian gyms.
		The problem, however, is that most of the people in the world aren't privileged enough to indulge in Gopnik's cherished globe-trotting affectations in the first place; they are, in fact, the people he so palpably scorns by zeroing in on their un-chicness: lunch at L'Ami Louis — really.
	www.salon.com /media/media961210.html (831 words)

	Bookreporter.com - PARIS TO THE MOON by Adam Gopnik
		Then I pick up an issue and turn to whatever Adam Gopnik has written and I know that as long as he writes for them I'll continue to mail in those subscription renewal forms every year.
		Gopnik possesses the rare skill of writing about abstractions like culture and art in ways that are not only painless to read, but fun.
		His second child is born in Paris, fueling wry comparisons between French and American attitudes towards and modes of delivery of les enfants.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews/0679444920.asp (605 words)

	HighBridge Audio - Through the Children's Gate - Adam Gopnik - Audiobook
		In 1995, Adam Gopnik, his wife, and their infant son left New York City for the urbane glamour of Paris.
		At the Gopniks’ home, it rewove itself with Jewish jokes, debates about the problem of consciousness and the meaning of modern art, imaginary playmates too busy to play and a goldfish fated to meet a Hitchcockian end.
		Gopnik has come to be known as one of the wittiest and most charming interpreters of contemporary life writing today.
	www.highbridgeaudio.com /throughchildrensgate.html (315 words)

	RandomHouse.ca \| Books \| Paris to the Moon by Adam Gopnik
		"Adam Gopnik's Paris to the Moon abounds in the sensuous delights of the city--the magical carousel in the Luxembourg Gardens, the tomato dessert at Arpège, even the exquisite awfulness of the new state library.
		Whether he's writing about the singularity of the Papon trial, the glory of bistro cuisine, the wacky idiosyncrasies of French kindergartens, or the vexing bureaucracy of Parisian health clubs, Gopnik's insights are infused with a formidable cultural intelligence, and his prose is as pellucid as that of any essayist.
		Adam Gopnik has been writing for The New Yorker since 1986, and his work for the magazine has won the National Magazine Award for Essay and Criticism as well as the George Polk Award for Magazine Reporting.
	www.randomhouse.ca /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781588361387 (660 words)

	Adam Gopnik Profile
		But after reading Gopnik’s recent essays, collected in his new book, "Paris to the Moon," it is clear to me why he managed to land such an attractive gig.
		But many of Gopnik’s subjects are every bit as elusive as the sounds of Miles Davis and John Coltrane.
		And those kids might eventually bring Gopnik back to Montreal, where his family could find the house -- and space -- that is beyond their reach in Manhattan.
	www.omnivore.org /jon/orwell/Gopnik.htm (849 words)

	"Health Care Forum" by Adam Gopnik and Malcolm Gladwell
		We knew that Adam Gopnik and Malcolm Gladwell have both lived in Canada and developed strong feelings about socialized health care--pro and con.
		And, as we have long had the highest regard for their work, we thought it would be interesting to bring them together for a debate through which they could share their insights with each other and our readers.
		MG: But, Adam, the percentage of those American women, families, who have premature babies and whose insurance runs out and who, as a result, are left deeply in debt is not large.
	www.washingtonmonthly.com /features/2000/0003.gladwellgopnik.html (7759 words)

	Amazon.com: Through The Children's Gate: Books: Adam Gopnik (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Gopnik, a self-confessed ham, is not afraid to dive into the voices, adding character and tone to, among others, his psypchiatrist, his children, and even local radio sports commentators.
		Adam Gopnik's flashes of elucidation are brilliant and memorable, but his self-indulgent ruminations puncture the mood he's so able to evoke so poignantly.
		As a father of two, I was really moved by Adam Gopnik stories of raising his kids in New York, trying to fullfill the dream that brings so many people to that amazing city while still pulling off the commonplace miracle of child-rearing.
	www.amazon.com /Through-Childrens-Gate-Adam-Gopnik/dp/1598870580 (2136 words)

	Renee's Book of the Day: Paris to the Moon by Adam Gopnik
		The last time we visited, during the Christmas holiday, I found Adam Gopnik’s Paris to the Moon on her shelf.
		It is a compilation of Gopnik’s writings during his stay in Paris between 1995 and 2000, many of which were originally published in the New Yorker as his “Paris Journals” series.
		In all cases, Gopnik’s love for Paris is evident, and he even describes Paris’ more frustrating aspects with wit and style.
	www.reneesbookoftheday.com /2006/07/paris-to-moon-by-adam-gopnik.html (330 words)

	Amazon.ca: The King in the Window : A Novel: Books: Adam Gopnik (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Gopnik, New Yorker writer and author of the adult best-seller Paris to the Moon (2000), tries his hand at writing for children, with mixed results.
		Through a series of unexpected and magical events, Oliver learns that he is the King of the Windows, the leader of a court of window wraiths centered at the palace of Versailles.
		On the plus side, Gopnik writes beautifully, especially when he is describing Paris and his characters (the enigmatic Mrs.
	www.amazon.ca /King-Window-Novel-Adam-Gopnik/dp/078681862X (634 words)

	Amazon.com: Paris to the Moon: Books: Adam Gopnik (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Adam Gopnik has provided me with some of my best laughs and best reads over the years in the New Yorker.
		Unfortunately, this is only one of many of Gopnik's rather forced allusions, and for the most part, his prose doesn't quite measure up to his aspirations.
		Again like Mayle (who must at the least, have been in the back of Gopnik's mind as a model for this sort of writing), Gopnik frequently digresses in his story to discuss cultural and particularly political variants in Parisian society.
	www.amazon.com /Paris-Moon-Adam-Gopnik/dp/0375758232 (2531 words)

	Adam Gopnik - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Adam Gopnik, a writer, essayist and commentator, is primarily known for his work published by The New Yorker, for which he has written since 1986.
		He was born on August 24th, 1956 in Philadelphia, but raised in Montreal.
		Adam Gopnik also recently published a collection of essays entitled "Through the Children's Gate" which focus primarily on his two children, Luke and Olivia, growing up in New York City.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Adam_Gopnik (303 words)

	Adam Gopnik In Conversation With Paul Holdengräber Tickets
		This entrance is for Gopnik a symbol of the "civilization of childhood" in New York, one which he wanted his children to enter and embrace.
		The subject of the last five years worth of his essays all turn on these shadows and lights: on raising two children in New York in a time of fear, and how fear is transmuted into hope, and hope even into joy, by their presence.
		Gopnik is the author of Paris to the Moon and The King in the Window.
	www.smarttix.com /show.aspx?showCode=ADA3 (436 words)

	eBooks - Paris to the Moon by Adam Gopnik - eReader.com
		Gopnik is a longtime New Yorker writer, and the magazine has sent its writers to Paris for decades -- but his was above all a personal pilgrimage to the place that had for so long been the undisputed capital of everything cultural and beautiful.
		As Gopnik describes in this funny and tender book, the dual processes of navigating a foreign city and becoming a parent are not completely dissimilar journeys -- both hold new routines, new languages, a new set of rules by which everyday life is lived.
		"Adam Gopnik's Paris to the Moon abounds in the sensuous delights of the city -- the magical carousel in the Luxembourg Gardens, the tomato dessert at Arpège, even the exquisite awfulness of the new state library.
	www.ereader.com /product/detail/4064?book=Paris_to_the_Moon (681 words)

	Adam Gopnik
		Gopnik finally decided it was time to go back home or become an expatriate.
		Gopnik says he never expected his collection of essays, Paris to the Moon, written for the New Yorker to become a best-seller when it was published by Random House, a few months ago.
		We sat with him near his new home, on the Upper East Side, eating croissants and American coffee, while Lucas, 5, shared with us the fact that his teacher in the Paris public school he was attending was much more demanding than his new teacher.
	www.rendezvousfrance.com /gopnik.html (1186 words)

	Bookreporter.com - THROUGH THE CHILDREN'S GATE by Adam Gopnik
		Taking its title from the name of the Central Park entrance at Seventy-sixth Street and Fifth Avenue, the collection is unified by Gopnik's captivating insights into the lives of his precocious children, Luke and Olivia, as they adapt to life in their new home.
		Yet these minor stumbles are more than offset by "Last of the Metrozoids," the understated and moving account of the death of Kirk Varnedoe, Gopnik's close friend and a noted art historian, as he delivers his final lectures and coaches, painstakingly and lovingly, Luke and his eight-year-old teammates on the Giant Metrozoids football team.
		Like all accomplished essayists, Adam Gopnik excels in moving seamlessly from the particular to the universal and back again.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews2/1400041813.asp (595 words)

	Proudly Serving My Corporate Masters: Adam Gopnik Makes Me Think About Microsoft
		Adam Gopnik is a New Yorker staff writer.
		And you certainly didn't have a lot of memos (actually you had zero memos, but group- or company-wide emails replaced those; there were very few of those that communicated decisions that had not previously been hashed out in smaller discussions).
		What you had instead was what Gopnik calls the "academic-collegial" decision making process; people would wander by other people's offices, or buttonhole each other after meetings or in the hallway ("the interstices between meetings"), or send emails to a few people ("the margins of memos"), and that's where most of the thinking got done.
	www.proudlyserving.com /archives/2004/11/adam_gopnik_mak.html (758 words)

	E-Flux : Adam Gopnik - (2006-05-15)
		The American Federation of Arts is pleased to welcome acclaimed writer and cultural critic Adam Gopnik as the featured speaker of the final lecture of the spring ArtTalks season.
		Gopnik will share his perspectives on what makes American art American.
		One of the preeminent interpreters of contemporary life today, Adam Gopnik has been writing for The New Yorker for more than twenty years.
	www.e-flux.com /displayshow.php?file=message_1147711298.txt (219 words)

	Seattle Arts & Lectures - Adam Gopnik
		A writer for the New Yorker since 1986, Adam Gopnik has come to be known as one of the preeminent, wittiest, and most charming interpreters of contemporary life writing today.
		From these essays he compiled the bestseller Paris to the Moon (2000), which has been described as "the finest book on France in recent years." His most recent accomplishment was editing Americans in Paris: A Literary Anthology (2004), a compilation of three centuries of writing about Paris.
		Born in Philadelphia, Gopnik grew up in Montreal where his parents were both professors at McGill University, and from which he received a B.A. He received an M.A. from the Institute of Fine Arts.
	www.lectures.org /gopnik.html (341 words)

	Amazon.fr : Here and There: Livres en anglais: Adam Gopnik,Helen Levitt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The tritone photographs, arranged without title, date or caption, were taken over a seven-decade period; with crisp, spontaneous grace, they reveal the public world of her native city of New York, from dreadlocked pedestrians near 42nd Street to dancing boys from another decade.
		In his laudatory introduction, New Yorker writer Gopnik calls Levitt a "supreme poet-photographer of the streets and people of New York," while acknowledging that what she portrays-graffitied buildings, fighting kids, lonely old men-is not always uplifting.
		Inspired by Cartier-Bresson, Levitt took pictures that often seem as casual as snapshots-and as serious as documents of a shared, urban history.
	www.amazon.fr /Here-There-Adam-Gopnik/dp/1576871657 (455 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Adam Gopnik - Paris to the Moon at Epinions.com
		Paris to the Moon is a delightful and utterly fascinating collection of essays of one very lucky Adam Gopnick, a writer who, along with his wife and infant son, lived in Paris, France for five years at the turn of the last century.
		The author had a fascination with France from the time he was eight, when his mother brought him a rather strange gift; a three dimensional cardboard cutout of a French policeman, whom he named Pierre, who stood guard in young Adam’s room for some time.
		After all, the United States is still home in their hearts and they were ready to go back to live in New York City, and raise their children as Americans.
	www.epinions.com /content_57127440004 (887 words)

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