Malcolm Gladwell in conversation with Virginia Prescott | Revenge of the Tipping Point

Name: Malcolm Gladwell in conversation with Virginia Prescott | Revenge of the Tipping Point
Start: 2024-10-22T19:30:00-04:00
Location: Atlanta Symphony Hall LIVE

Schedule

Tue Oct 22 2024 at 07:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Atlanta Symphony Hall LIVE | Atlanta, GA

Twenty-five years after publishing his groundbreaking first book, Malcolm Gladwell returns with a brand-new volume that reframes the lessons of "The Tipping Point" in a startling and revealing light.
A Cappella Books welcomes bestselling author and host of the popular "Revisionist History" podcast Malcolm Gladwell to Atlanta Symphony Hall on Tuesday, October 22, at 7:30 PM, in honor of his new book, "Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering." The author will appear in conversation with Virginia Prescott, President of School of Humans Audio and former host of GPB's "On Second Thought."
This program is presented in partnership with Emory University's Center for Public Scholarship and Engagement.
Tickets include a presigned hardcover edition of "Revenge of the Tipping Point" and will go on sale Monday, August 12.
About the Book
Why is Miami…Miami? What does the heartbreaking fate of the cheetah tell us about the way we raise our children? Why do Ivy League schools care so much about sports? What is the Magic Third, and what does it mean for racial harmony? In this provocative new work, Malcolm Gladwell returns for the first time in twenty-five years to the subject of social epidemics and tipping points, this time with the aim of explaining the dark side of contagious phenomena.
Through a series of riveting stories, Gladwell traces the rise of a new and troubling form of social engineering. He takes us to the streets of Los Angeles to meet the world's most successful bank robbers, rediscovers a forgotten television show from the 1970s that changed the world, visits the site of a historic experiment on a tiny cul-de-sac in northern California, and offers an alternate history of two of the biggest epidemics of our day: COVID and the opioid crisis. Revenge of the Tipping Point is Gladwell's most personal book yet. With his characteristic mix of storytelling and social science, he offers a guide to making sense of the contagions of the modern world. It's time we took tipping points seriously.
About the Author
Malcolm Gladwell is the author of seven New York Times bestsellers: "The Tipping Point," "Blink," "Outliers," "What the Dog Saw," "David and Goliath," "Talking to Strangers," and "The Bomber Mafia." He is also the co-founder 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.
About the Conversation Partner
Before being named President of School of Humans audio division, Virginia Prescott hosted GPB's "On Second Thought" from 2018-2021. In 2024, the School of Humans podcast "Unreformed" was nominated for a Peabody Award. was Prescott has gathered an impressive collection of tote bags and awards over decades in public media. She earned her audio chops as producer and director for NPR’s "On Point" and "Here and Now" and on the Peabody Award-winning team behind "Jazz from Lincoln Center with Ed Bradley." She’s worked at stations from New Orleans to New York, in conflict zones from the Balkans to Sierra Leone and was awarded a Loeb Fellowship from Harvard.