Adam is a writer, interviewer, filmmaker, and teacher based in New York.
Adam specializes in the art of the interview.
For the BBC he has interviewed a range of actors, writers, and musicians. He has produced/directed two films and his writing has appeared in The Guardian and Design Observer. He was a Poynter Fellow at Yale University and has taught at Wesleyan University. He currently teaches at the School of Visual Arts in New York.
Notable Interviewees
Paul Auster
Michael Bloomberg
James Brown
David Byrne
Daniel Craig
Gloria Gaynor
Philip Glass
Debbie Harry
Veterans Of The D-Day Landings
Liza Minnelli
Susan Sarandon
Meryl Streep
Gay Talese
Kurt Vonnegut
John Waters
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Selected Writing
Book
Saul Leiter, Retrospective
Biographical essay of a quintessentially New York photographer and painter.
Kehrer Verlag
Journalism
“The Ground Zero They Didn’t Want Us to See”
700 photographs of post-bomb Hiroshima found on a street corner.
The Guardian Newspaper
Interview
An Interview With Philip Glass
An interview for a BBC documentary film about Chuck Close.
Design Observer
Filmmaking
Video
Tracy K. Smith
Rolex Mentorship Program
A video profile of the US Poet Laureate. 3 minutes.