Today in books and publishing: Malcolm Gladwell takes on the underdog; what really happened with the Pulitzer Prize for fiction this year; Zadie Smith's first book in seven years; Fifty Shades in the air.
Around the same time he was voicing support for Occupy Wall Street, Malcolm Gladwell participated in a speaking tour to help Bank of America win new small business customers.
Allowing some time for the Steve Jobs dust to settle, Malcolm Gladwell in this week's New Yorker offers his insight on the Walter Isaacson biography of the late Apple CEO, proving once and for all that Jobs was crazy.
Plus: The best of the 2011 New Yorker festival events
The author of 'Outliers' explains why he runs 24 hours behind the news cycle
Fed up using flags and hand signals, Libyan rebels hacked the regime's cell phone network
Too bad his new one sounds like 'Rubicon'
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