At Lunch with Adam Moss
Julie Salamon (New York Times best-selling author) sits down with editor and author Adam Moss. Adam was the editor of New York magazine, The New York Times Magazine, and 7 Days. As editor of New York, he also oversaw the creation of five digital magazines: Vulture, The Cut, Daily Intelligencer, Grub Street, and The Strategist. During his tenure, New York won forty-one National Magazine Awards, including Magazine of the Year. He was an assistant managing editor of The New York Times with oversight of the Magazine, the Book Review, and the Culture, and Style sections, as well as managing editor of Esquire. He was elected to the Magazine Editors’ Hall of Fame in 2019.
Throughout his forty-year career, Moss has been drawn to origin stories— how a cultural moment or a piece of art came to be. It is a question that animates his beautiful and mind-expanding book THE WORK OF ART: How Something Comes from Nothing an illuminating exploration of the rigorous, complex, personal, and elusive work of making art. Moss wondered how an artist thinks; is there a way that artists look at the world that would be instructional for the rest of us? To answer these questions, Moss interviews a truly incredible slate of artists and traces the evolution of transcendent novels, paintings, jokes, movies, songs, and more. Weaving these conversations together with artifacts of the artist’s craft—the journal entries, napkin doodles, and early sketches that were their tools—THE WORK OF ART demystifies the creative process that leads to moments of genius. The result is a breathtaking and inspiring guided tour inside the artist’s head.
