The brainiac author of Outliers and The Tipping Point has put philosophical musing on to the bestseller lists, but what does he enjoy when he's not working up a new theory?
Malcolm Gladwell may well be the smartest guy in the room. The Sideshow Bob-haired New Yorker journalist has topped bestseller lists all over the globe with his intuitive investigations into how social forces change the way we live and interact such as Blink, The Tipping Point and Outliers. He's been namechecked by Bill Clinton, sold millions of books and is about to embark on a speaking tour of the UK. In his latest book, What The Dog Saw – a collection of his best New Yorker essays – Gladwell laterally thinks about what makes people employable; whether Enron's downfall was due to there being too much information available to curious journalists and stock analysts; and whether genius comes late, like Cezanne's,...
Malcolm Gladwell may well be the smartest guy in the room. The Sideshow Bob-haired New Yorker journalist has topped bestseller lists all over the globe with his intuitive investigations into how social forces change the way we live and interact such as Blink, The Tipping Point and Outliers. He's been namechecked by Bill Clinton, sold millions of books and is about to embark on a speaking tour of the UK. In his latest book, What The Dog Saw – a collection of his best New Yorker essays – Gladwell laterally thinks about what makes people employable; whether Enron's downfall was due to there being too much information available to curious journalists and stock analysts; and whether genius comes late, like Cezanne's,...
- 5/7/2010
- The Guardian - Film News
It's hard to imagine finding much to fault in an album that professes a serious devotion to the likes of the nm1024169 autoThompson Twins[/link] and nm0124165 autoKate Bush[/link], but it's also hard to imagine taking such an album seriously. Credit M83, then, for gazing back at the '80s and escaping the revivalist void that traps so many different acts with so many different intentions. In an ethereal bit of illogic, Saturdays=Youth sounds entirely and nothing like the '80s. There's no mistaking songs such as "Skin Of The Night" and "Graveyard Girl" as being rooted in any other time, from their hooks to their moods to the ways their guitars jangle in service of synthesizers at work in the foreground. But then, there's no mistaking anything on the album as having been recorded any time other than now. M83...
- 4/15/2008
- by Andy Battaglia
- avclub.com
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