Adam Moss
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88 appearances
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Dec 2024
Adam Moss’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And I found that as a writer of the book somewhat frustrating. I kind of needed it for closure. I needed it for my own purposes, but I also needed to feel that they made something great. I was rooting for them. There was a great deal of transference involved in this book, and I fell in love with all of my subjects. So I wanted something spectacular for them in the end, and it never came.
When I would talk to him about that, I said, well, you don't sound like that was very important. And they said, it's not about the thing I'm making. It is really about the work. I just get up every day because I like or I need more than I like to work in this way. And the end point is not that relevant to me. And I just thought this was bullshit. And I thought it was bullshit over time.
A long period of time. And then I was just worn down. And I came to kind of grok the truth of it. I absorbed that. And suddenly my relationship to my own work changed.
I got enormous pleasure from what I like to think of as the verb of it rather than the noun of it. Making one mark. as a painter just like one little shoe that pleased me for whatever reason release me from this incredibly punishing attitude I had toward the work itself I do care about the work itself I really still want to be a good painter but I can get pleasure out of the making
That's one of the things that's fantastic about magazines. You always have next week. Or, you know, in a digital world, you always have five minutes from now. It's why I was particularly... suited to magazines, but none of us know ourselves very well. Whatever lessons I might have gotten from my own magazine life that might apply to my painting life, I didn't.
Well, certainly not zero and certainly not five. So somewhere in that two to four range. Did you become more self-aware over time and experience as an editor? Yeah, I think so. Maybe to a fault. What do you mean by that? Sometimes experience can be a hindrance. You stop yourself from making something.
The Samin chapter, Samin Nosrat chapter, the title of the chapter is With Beginner's Eyes because she makes this observation about salt, fat, acid, heat that when she very excitedly at the beginning of her cooking life Tells a fellow chef, the fellow chef says, well, everybody knows that. No, they don't. They don't know that. And anyway, I've never seen that anywhere.
And I think people need to hear this, that this is really how you should think about cooking. And she goes on and builds this fabulous book and then a little empire off of it. Sometimes experience stops you from doing something because you know it has failed too often and you don't want to go through that failure again. You have to believe you can in order to go forward.
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