
Similarly, W.W.Norton had a program where you could preorder a signed copy of Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals about Death. According to our buyer Jason, those copies have also all been accounted for. But the good news is that Caitlin Doughty will be at the store to sign more copies when she interviews Landis Blair, who illustrated From Here to Eternity. He’s coming to Boswell on Sunday, October 20, 3 pm for The Envious Siblings: And Other Morbid Nursery Rhymes. If you like Edward Gorey, or maybe even the darker depths of Struwwelpeter, you will love this book, just like Chris, my fellow marketeer. This one is free with registration at landisblairmke.bpt.me.

Being that the thesis is set up bookended by the well-known incident involving a minor traffic violation that escalated to jail and suicide, I thought it would be a little more like the podcast. But his thesis, which deals with reading and understanding those strangers in the book’s title, does play off his previous works, most notably Blink. Through a series of stories, Gladwell lays out the argument that we are wired to believe folks, but we are particularly bad at misreading liars who act like they're telling the truth, or worse, truth tellers. who for whatever reason, appear to be lying.

One of my favorite Gladwell podcasts was part of his series on education, most notably why Vassar has such bad food and what that says about higher education. You really should actually listen to it now if you haven’t already. If you liked this series, you will love Paul Tough’s The Years that Matter Most: How College Makes or Breaks Us. Since the release of How Children Succeed, Tough’s work has been championed by educators, but I wound up not reading it, despite the enthusiasm of my fellow bookseller Hannah, and the fact that I had a shelf of education narrative books in my home. Maybe soon.

I really loved this book; it brought back memories of reading a book by Jacques Steinberg’s The Gatekeepers, which followed admissions officers and guidance counselors through the admissions process. Now I don’t think that will sell the book for most of you, but I think it’s fair to say that Tough’s book is fairly compared to Evicted, in which he blends policy and storytelling together. Read "What College Admissions Officers Really Want" in The New York Times Magazine.
Boswell and University School of Milwaukee are partnering for a Paul Tough talk on October 15. It’s free, but you do have to register at usmk12.org/tough. This is going to fill up so please don’t wait until the last minute.
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