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The Real Work : On the Mystery of Mastery by Adam Gopnik war The new book marks theFor decades, Adam Gopnik has been one of our most beloved writers, a brilliantly perceptive critic of art, food, France, and more. But recently, he became obsessed by a fundamental matter: how did the people he was writing about learn their outlandish skill, whether it was drawing a nude or baking a sourdough loaf? In The Real Work the term magicians use for the accumulated craft that makes for a great trick Gopnik apprentices himself to an artist, a