Top of page

Film, Video Adam Gopnik: 2016 National Book Festival

Transcript: TEXT

About this Item

Title

  • Adam Gopnik: 2016 National Book Festival

Summary

  • Adam Gopnik discusses "The Table Comes First: Family, France and the Meaning of Food" at the 2016 Library of Congress Book Festival in Washington, D.C.

Event Date

  • September 24, 2016

Notes

  • -  Adam Gopnik is a writer and best-selling author who has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1986. He has received three National Magazine Awards for essays and criticism, a George Polk Award for magazine reporting, the Canadian National Magazine Award Gold Medal for arts writing and the Medal of Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French Republic. Gopnik's published books include "Through the Children's Gate: A Home in New York," "Paris to the Moon," "Angels and Ages: A Short Book about Darwin, Lincoln and Modern Life," "Winter: Five Windows on the Season" and the novel "The King in the Window." His latest book is "The Table Comes First: Family, France and the Meaning of Food". Gopnik lives with his family in New York.

Running Time

  • 48 minutes 51 seconds

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

Format

Contributor

Dates

Language

Rights & Access

While the Library of Congress created most of the videos in this collection, they include copyrighted materials that the Library has permission from rightsholders to present.  Rights assessment is your responsibility.  The written permission of the copyright owners in materials not in the public domain is required for distribution, reproduction, or other use of protected items beyond that allowed by fair use or other statutory exemptions. There may also be content that is protected under the copyright or neighboring-rights laws of other nations.  Permissions may additionally be required from holders of other rights (such as publicity and/or privacy rights). Whenever possible, we provide information that we have about copyright owners and related matters in the catalog records, finding aids and other texts that accompany collections. However, the information we have may not be accurate or complete.

More about Copyright and other Restrictions

For guidance about compiling full citations consult Citing Primary Sources.

Credit Line: Library of Congress

Cite This Item

Citations are generated automatically from bibliographic data as a convenience, and may not be complete or accurate.

Chicago citation style:

Adam Gopnik:National Book Festival. 2016. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/webcast-7590/.

APA citation style:

(2016) Adam Gopnik:National Book Festival. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/webcast-7590/.

MLA citation style:

Adam Gopnik:National Book Festival. 2016. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/webcast-7590/>.