"I was very taken, instantly taken by the company of magicians. The people I most have enjoyed hanging out with in life are magicians and cooks," she says. "There's an artisanal basis to everything they do." She adds: 'Nothing is harder than running a restaurant except running a magic show'
In a live conversation taped at the 92nd Street Y in New York City, Malcolm chats with his old friend and New Yorker magazine colleague, Adam Gopnik, about Adam’s latest book, The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery. In the book, Adam follows numerous masters of their craft to find out just how they do what they do—and discovers that there is mastery all around us. In this episode, Malcolm and Adam highlight a few of the folks from the book, and what they have to teach us. You can purchase the audiobook version of The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery at Pushkin.fm
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