Do you think you can look someone in the eye and tell if they're lying to you? Malcolm Gladwell talks about how trust, mistrust and myths about both are shaping our society.
THE BARNES AND NOBLE REVIEW
This episode of B&N Podcast: Talking to Strangers
What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know
A talk with one of the most influential writers in the world, whose books examine how humans think and behave in ways large and small.
As a staff writer for the New Yorker and in bestsellers like The Tipping Point, Blink, and Outliers, as well as in his podcast Revisionist History, Gladwell has marshaled the tools of an array of sciences to challenge conventional wisdom about everything from how to spot an art forgery to what makes a basketball team succeed. His new book Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know is his first in six years; its origin, Gladwell writes, was in the author’s confrontation with the perplexing, tragic and infuriating events that led to the death of Sandra Bland in a Texas jail in 2015.
When the author joined B&N’s Bill Tipper in the studio, he explained how his outrage over Bland’s story raised the questions he explores in Talking to Strangers, and why everything we think we know about who to trust (and mistrust) is wrong. Gladwell writes in his signature colorful, fluid, and accessible prose, though he occasionally fails to make fully clear the connection between a seemingly tangential topic such as suicide risk and the book’s main questions.
In addition to providing an analysis of human mental habits and interactions, Gladwell pleas for more thoughtful ways of behaving and advocates for people to embrace trust, rather than defaulting to distrust, and not to “blame the stranger.” Readers will find this both fascinating and topical.
— Agent: Tina Bennett, William Morris Endeavor.
Every author has a story beyond the one that they put down on paper.
The Barnes & Noble Podcast goes between the lines with today’s most interesting writers, exploring what inspires them, what confounds them, and what they were thinking when they wrote the books we’re talking about:
THE BARNES AND NOBLE REVIEW
This episode of B&N Podcast: Talking to Strangers
What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know
A talk with one of the most influential writers in the world, whose books examine how humans think and behave in ways large and small.
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| REVIEW via B&N: Malcolm Gladwell |
As a staff writer for the New Yorker and in bestsellers like The Tipping Point, Blink, and Outliers, as well as in his podcast Revisionist History, Gladwell has marshaled the tools of an array of sciences to challenge conventional wisdom about everything from how to spot an art forgery to what makes a basketball team succeed. His new book Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know is his first in six years; its origin, Gladwell writes, was in the author’s confrontation with the perplexing, tragic and infuriating events that led to the death of Sandra Bland in a Texas jail in 2015.
When the author joined B&N’s Bill Tipper in the studio, he explained how his outrage over Bland’s story raised the questions he explores in Talking to Strangers, and why everything we think we know about who to trust (and mistrust) is wrong. Gladwell writes in his signature colorful, fluid, and accessible prose, though he occasionally fails to make fully clear the connection between a seemingly tangential topic such as suicide risk and the book’s main questions.
In addition to providing an analysis of human mental habits and interactions, Gladwell pleas for more thoughtful ways of behaving and advocates for people to embrace trust, rather than defaulting to distrust, and not to “blame the stranger.” Readers will find this both fascinating and topical.
— Agent: Tina Bennett, William Morris Endeavor.
Every author has a story beyond the one that they put down on paper.
The Barnes & Noble Podcast goes between the lines with today’s most interesting writers, exploring what inspires them, what confounds them, and what they were thinking when they wrote the books we’re talking about:
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Every author has a story beyond the one that they put down on paper. The Barnes & Noble Podcast goes between the lines with today's most interesting writers, exploring what inspires them, what confounds them, and what they were thinking when they wrote the books we're talking about.
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