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Adam Gopnik: The Joy of Getting Good at Something Hard

Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

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The Eloquence of the Eraser

I wanted to be able to get ice cream at night and cinnamon buns in the morning. That's an example of exactly the principle of good writing that I was talking about before. It doesn't make a big claim. It just itemizes experience. But it gives us a moment of experience. And that's what I aim for always. How do you take criticism? Very poorly. You know, as you probably noticed, treating my book Alan,. but it's, it's,It is, I believe, controlled aggression. In other words, I try not to edit myself while I'm writing because this is wonderful thing that happens exactly that is the flow with the eraser afterwards.

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