Organized by

Delight Roberts

Location

Foundry Vineyards, 524 1st Ave S.,  Seattle WA 98104

Friday, November 1, 2019 @ 5:30pm-7:00pm

Description

In this month’s book club meeting, we will be discussing Malcolm Gladwell’s newest book, “Talking to Strangers”, which offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers—and why they often go wrong.

We will meet at Foundry Vineyards’s newest downtown Seattle Tasting Room, where we will enjoy light bites and tasty wines, during the book club discussion.

About the Book

How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are campus sexual assaults on the rise? Do television sitcoms teach us something about the way we relate to each other that isn’t true?

“Talking to Strangers” is a classically Gladwellian intellectual adventure, a challenging and controversial excursion through history, psychology, and scandals taken straight from the news. He revisits the deceptions of Bernie Madoff, the trial of Amanda Knox, the suicide of Sylvia Plath, the Jerry Sandusky pedophilia scandal at Penn State University, and the death of Sandra Bland—throwing our understanding of these and other stories into doubt. Something is very wrong, Gladwell argues, with the tools and strategies we use to make sense of people we don’t know. And because we don’t know how to talk to strangers, we are inviting conflict and misunderstanding in ways that have a profound effect on our lives and our world. In his first book since his #1 bestseller, “David and Goliath,” Malcolm Gladwell has written a gripping guidebook for troubled times.

About the Author

Malcolm Gladwell is the author of five New York Times bestsellers: “The Tipping Point,” “Blink,” “Outliers,” “What the Dog Saw,” and “David and Goliath.” He is also the co-founder of Pushkin Industries, an audio content company that produces the podcasts “Revisionist History,” which reconsiders things both overlooked and misunderstood, and “Broken Record,” where he, Rick Rubin, and Bruce Headlam interview musicians across a wide range of genres. Gladwell has been included in the TIME 100 Most Influential People list and touted as one of Foreign Policy’s Top Global Thinkers.