Texas Book Festival and BookPeople Present: Malcolm Gladwell

Texas Book Festival is honored to welcome Malcolm Gladwell in celebration of his latest book, Revenge of the Tipping Point.

This is a ticketed event.

• Date: Saturday, November 16th
• Start time: 12:45 pm
• Run time: 45 minutes
• Location: First Baptist Church, 901 Trinity St, Austin, TX 78701
• Moderator: Michele Norris
• Your ticket purchase includes a pre-signed copy of Revenge of the Tipping Point. There will be no public signing after this event.
• Please note: Each ticket purchase includes entry for one guest

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About the book (as provided by Little, Brown and Company):

Twenty-five years after the publication of 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.
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 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 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.

About the moderator:

Michele Norris is one of the most trusted voices in journalism. She is the author of the acclaimed book, Our Hidden Conversations: What Americans Really Think About Race And Identity (Simon & Schuster Jan 2024) that explores these cultural issues during the period bookended by the presidencies of Barack Obama and Donald Trump and punctuated by a global pandemic, the overturning of Roe v Wade and the storming of the nation’s Capitol. Michele is also a Columnist for The Washington Post Opinion Section, the Host of the Audible Original podcast, Your Mama’s Kitchen, and her voice will be familiar to followers of public radio, where from 2002 to 2012 she was a host of National Public Radio’s afternoon magazine show, All Things Considered. Norris is also the Founding Director of The Race Card Project, a Peabody Award Winning narrative archive where people around the world share their experiences, questions, hopes, dreams, laments, and observations about identity --in just six words--as the starting point for conversations about race and belonging. Her Work at The Race Card Project was the foundation for her new book. Norris is also National Geographic Storytelling Fellow. She has received numerous awards for her work, including Emmy, Peabody and Dupont Awards. In 2022 she received the Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism from Harvard University’s Institute of Politics.

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