Best-selling author Gladwell to talk

Malcolm Gladwell, staff writer for The New Yorker, will visit campus Wednesday, April 19, to deliver a lecture titled “The Tipping Point: How Little Things can Make a Big Difference.”

The talk, drawing from Gladwell’s best-selling book of the same name, is planned at 3:30 p.m., 8417 Social Science.

Gladwell has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1996. Previously, from 1987-96, he wrote for the Washington Post, where he covered health care, the pharmaceutical industry, medicine and science. He has also written for the New Republic, Washington Monthly and American Spectator, covering computers, religion, and the broadcasting industry, among other things.

Gladwell also will read from “The Tipping Point” (Little Brown, 2000) Tuesday, April 18, at 7:30 p.m. at Canterbury Booksellers, 315 West Gorham St. His campus appearnace is sponsored by the A. E. Havens Center. For more information, call (608) 262-0854.