An Evening with Malcolm Gladwell

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Join us for an in-person and virtual* Live Talks Los Angeles event:

*Virtual event airs on October 8 at 6pm PT/9pm ET

discussing her book, "The American Way of Killing: The Invention of an Epidemic"

TICKETS:

• $55 General Admission ticket + signed book
• $85 Reserved Section Seat + 2 signed books (The American Way of Killing & Revenge of the Tipping Point)
• Additional signed books available for purchase at event

• The virtual version of this event airs on October 8, 2026, at 6pm PT/9PM ET and is available on video-on-demand for five days. Tickets include a signed book.
• Tickets for the virtual event can be purchased here (includes the signed book).
• ASL interpreter provided upon request.
• Free parking at the venue
  

Malcolm Gladwell returns with his most urgent book yet: a provocative investigation of America's epidemic of gun violence.

Malcolm Gladwell is the author of eight New York Times bestsellers: The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, What the Dog Saw, David and Goliath*, Talking to Strangers*, The Bomber Mafia*, and Revenge of the Tipping Point*. He is also the cofounder of Pushkin Industries, an audio-content company that produces Revisionist History, among other podcasts and audiobooks. He was born in England, raised in Canada, and lives outside New York with his family and a cat named Biggie Smalls. (* Gladwell appeared on the Live Talks Los Angeles stage for these titles and also has interviewed Michael Lewis, Ziggy Marley and David Goldhill for us)

The United States has far more homicides than any of its peers around the world. Why?

In this groundbreaking book, Malcolm Gladwell explores the American “peculiarity”―how the world’s wealthiest country came to suffer from a problem typically only seen in the world’s poorest countries.

Drawing on original interviews, archival and social science research, and his trademark insight, Gladwell approaches the American paradox through a series of stories. What can we learn from the miracle of a young gunshot victim in Washington, D.C.? How have the legal troubles of a seventeenth-century English knight influenced American attempts at gun control? Why would a European police chief be baffled by the graduation ceremony at any American police academy?

In a sweeping narrative, Gladwell travels from a shooting range in North Carolina, to the South Side of Chicago, to an old plantation house in Alabama, painting a picture of a country that does not understand its most pressing social problem, and as result, does not understand how to fix it.