Malcolm Gladwell Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===''Talking to Strangers''=== {{Main|Talking to Strangers}} Gladwell's sixth book, ''Talking to Strangers'', was released September 2019. The book examines interactions with strangers, covers examples that include the deceptions of [[Bernie Madoff]], the trial of [[Amanda Knox]], the suicide of [[Sylvia Plath]], the [[Jerry Sandusky]] pedophilia case at [[Penn State]], and the death of [[Sandra Bland]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cbc.ca/books/new-malcolm-gladwell-book-titled-talking-to-strangers-coming-in-september-1.5007696|title=New Malcolm Gladwell book, titled Talking to Strangers, coming in September|last=Balser|first=Erin|date=6 February 2019|website=CBC Books}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|first1=Sean|last1=O'Hagan|access-date=1 September 2019|title=Malcolm Gladwell: 'I'm just trying to get people to take psychology seriously'|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/sep/01/malcolm-gladwell-interview-talking-to-strangers-apolitical|newspaper=The Guardian|date=1 September 2019|issn=0261-3077|via=www.theguardian.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|first1=Amy|last1=Chozick|access-date=1 September 2019|title=With 'Talking to Strangers,' Malcolm Gladwell Goes Dark | via=Cengage | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191217213720/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/30/business/malcolm-gladwell-talking-to-strangers.html | archive-date=17 December 2019 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/30/business/malcolm-gladwell-talking-to-strangers.html|newspaper=The New York Times| date=1 September 2019 | page=1L | orig-date=30 August 2019|issn=0362-4331 | id={{Gale|A598281962}}}}</ref> Gladwell explained what inspired him to write the book as being "struck by how many high profile cases in the news were about the same thing—strangers misunderstanding each other."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thenextchapter/full-episode-jan-4-2020-1.5410673/why-malcolm-gladwell-believes-humans-are-terrible-at-detecting-lies-and-why-we-all-need-to-get-better-at-it-1.5410826|title=Why Malcolm Gladwell believes humans are terrible at detecting lies – and why we all need to get better at it|last=Rogers|first=Shelagh|date=3 January 2020|work=CBC|access-date=30 January 2020}}</ref> It challenges the assumptions we are programmed to make when encountering strangers, and the potentially dangerous consequences of misreading people we do not know.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/307823/talking-to-strangers/9780241351567.html|title=Talking to Strangers|last=Gladwell|first=Malcolm|website=www.penguin.co.uk|language=en|access-date=5 September 2019|archive-date=5 September 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190905131203/https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/307823/talking-to-strangers/9780241351567.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page