Talking to Strangers

I love this book … reading it will actually change not just how you see strangers, but how you look at yourself, the news - the world. Reading this book changed me. * Oprah Winfrey *Fascinating … you should read the book … He’s tackling the dark side of human nature - what do we ever know about other people? – Sathnam Sanghera * The Times Magazine *Now that practically everybody seems to be spoiling for a fight, I have found Malcolm Gladwell’s Talking to Strangers invaluable … His moral - to approach new people with caution and humility - has become my motto. * Evening Standard *Taut, provocative, smart … Gladwell’s cool, playful intelligence has made him one of our leading public thinkers * New Statesman *A book examining the ways we misinterpret or fail to communicate with one another could not feel more necessary … the page-turning urgency of a thriller – Chris Barton * Los Angeles Times *Superb writing. Masterful … bears all the marks that have made Gladwell one of the most successful non-fiction authors of his generation. – Pilita Clark * Financial Times *A dazzling book … Gladwell is a rock star of nonfiction … ideas are slowly revealed until the reader arrives at a conclusion they didn’t expect. Gladwell is advancing ideas and, sure, they are all open to challenge … but they are stimulating and convincing - and you won’t regret a minute you spend mastering them * The Times *A wonderful provocation which Gladwell delivers like no other, an awakening to just one of the fascinations that lie in ordinary human experience … as ever, Gladwell’s genius is in the telling. * Spectator *Malcolm Gladwell made his name bringing intellectual sparkle to everyday subjects, and his new book - about how strangers talk to each other - is no exception. – Sean O’Hagan * Observer *

Malcolm Gladwell is the author of six international bestsellers- The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, What the Dog Saw, David and Goliath and most recently, Talking to Strangers. He is the host of the podcast Revisionist History, a staff writer at The New Yorker, and co-founder of the audio company Pushkin Industries. He graduated from the University of Toronto, Trinity College, with a degree in history. Gladwell was born in England and grew up in rural Ontario. He lives in New York.