Self-cleaning Oven
If you enjoy reading Malcolm Gladwell’s work (as I do) you’ll likely enjoy this profile written by Gerald Hannon.
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Henry Finder [Gladwell’s editor at The New Yorker since he joined the magazine in 1996] says that Gladwell’s “real accomplishment is to develop a new genre of journalism — ‘a Gladwell piece.’ Everybody knows what you mean by that — a piece with an argument that is bound together by narrative and character, which often makes you take a second look at things you take for granted. He has a penchant for the unglamorous, maybe because he’s Canadian and resistant to snide, sophisticated Manhattan attitudes. There’s also not the shred of a prima donna about him — very few writers are as low maintenance. He’s a self-cleaning oven.”
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