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Adam Gopnik: The Joy of Getting Good at Something Hard

Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

CHAPTER

How to Stop a Compulsive Talker

"We always end our show with seven quick questions, roughly to do with communicating or relating," he says. "I wish I understood the chemistry of musical theater ... it's something you need in your blood and your bones." He adds: "The strangest question anyone has ever asked me is how do you write so much on so many subjects?"

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