Best Copy:  The Big New Yorker Book of Dogs https://attemptedbloggery.blogspot.com/2023/08/best-copy-big-new-yorker-book-of-dogs.html #JamesThurber #Dogs #AdamGopnik #TheNewYorker

Signed by Jules Feiffer and Adam Gopnik
Best Copy:  The Big New Yorker Book of Dogs https://attemptedbloggery.blogspot.com/2023/08/best-copy-big-new-yorker-book-of-dogs.html #JulesFeiffer #Dog #AdamGopnik #Dogs #TheNewYorker

"Can't repeat the past? We do it every day. We build a life, or try to, of pleasures and duties that will become routine, so that every day will be the same day, or nearly so, 'the day of our life, 'Randall Jarrell called it.'" — Adam Gopnik — — — #AdamGopnik #quote #quotes #routine #habits

I am not interested in AI art, the way I'm not interested in doing digital art, watercolor, or printmaking. However I AM a huge ?fan of Adam Gopnik's writing and this did not disappoint!

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/what-can-ai-art-teach-us-about-the-real-thing

#AdamGopnik #AIArt #art

“Humanity itself is what we have to fight for—accepting all the compromises and half-measures that are essential to human existence, and neither condemning them too readily nor forgiving them too easily.

#Camus reveals himself, in his way, as that most horrible of things, a centrist. But centrism is a necessary condition, if a very bad name, for the simple effort of turning one’s head around to see the whole horizon. Seeking the middle on every question is foolish; being centered to see the world as it is, just essential sense. At the time Camus wrote his letter, resistance was not a self-congratulatory rhetorical position but a life-or-death risk taken every day. And yet he was still prepared to put his life on the line for the view that there is no one line to follow in life.”

#AdamGopnik (always loved this piece— #Rereading

Reading a Lost Wartime Letter from #AlbertCamus in 2020 https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/reading-a-lost-wartime-letter-from-albert-camus-in-2020

“#Movies are an accumulation of mundane tasks that support improbable fables. Closing [#WesleyanUniversity’s #JeanineBasinger and #SamWasson’s “Hollywood: The Oral History”], one wonders if American #entertainment has reached its end as a collection of myths and legends suitable to a secular society…The glow and the gleam of #Hollywood are fading. The collected testimony of witnesses is inevitably a kind of group elegy for something loved and gone.” —#AdamGopnik https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/12/05/what-hollywoods-ultimate-oral-history-reveals

You can't have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.
– Adam Gopnik

#AdamGopnik #cafexperiment #quoteoftheday #coffeequote