Encore: The King of Tears

Malcolm Gladwell here, my new book, The American Way of Killing, investigates America's gun violence crisis. Why is the richest country in the world plagued by such lethal violence? Through a series of stories, interviews, and archival tape, I confront one of today's most urgent moral dilemmas and examine Why the US has never quite understood its own problem and why you can't fix what you refuse to see clearly. Get the American way of killing at pushkin.fm slash audiobooks or at Audible, Spotify, or wherever audiobooks are sold.

Pushkin. I started listening to country music when I was about twelve or thirteen. This was rural Ontario in the 1970s. Everyone else my age was listening to the Eagles or Fleetwood Mac or some properly Canadian rock band like Rush, but for some inexplicable reason, I, a British Jamaican kid marooned in the Canadian heartland, found solace in the music coming out of Nashville. Lots of Johnny Cash, Loretta Lynn, Willie Nelson, Whelan Jennings,

I can still sing almost all of Good Hearted Woman from Memory, and of course, George Jones. I still remember the first time I heard the Grand Tour. Step right up. Come on in, if you'd like to take the grand tour of a lonely house that once was home, sweet home. And then

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