Paul Simon: I'm good at shaping sentences. That's the form I love most in the world, is the essay. And there's no form known to man in which ideas and emotions come into such intimate entanglement as in songs. So anybody who can write one good song, one memorable song, has got a little bit of purchase on immortality.
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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