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Adam Gopnik: The Joy of Getting Good at Something Hard

Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

CHAPTER

The Irony of Criticism

"I take criticism very badly, but I react to it only to my wife at 3am," he says. "It stains your psyche in some funny way when this thing you do out because it's how you make meaning in the world becomes deluded and polluted with contention" The writer is planning an anthology of editorials that writers say to their spouses.

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