How to Tell a Story From Your Life

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i love the story, but this is a story my father did not tell me until like three years ago. He somehow just comes out and tels so at 61, he needs a particular text book. And it means sailing from kingston to miami and taking a bus from mMiami to atlanta. Well, he doesn't realize s that they said yes. It was extraordinary. You know, she was a black woman trying to marry a white man in a england in the fifties. So it was, no, they were a littlebit of an oddity. I think writing that book was wash, i think a very, was a very deliberate act on my

Journalist, author, and podcaster Malcolm Gladwell joins Tyler for a conversation on Joyce Gladwell, Caribbean identity, satire as a weapon, Daniel Ellsberg and Edward Snowden, Harvard’s under-theorized endowment, why early childhood intervention is overrated, long-distance running, and Malcolm’s happy risk-averse career going from one “fur-lined rat hole to the next.”

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Recorded February 27th, 2017 Other ways to connect

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