Malcolm Gladwell meets Ben Fountain: 'So much of politics is absurd and dumb'

The two writers sat down in Brooklyn, New York, to talk about Fountain’s new book Beautiful Country Burn Again and Trump, Hillary Clinton and the American psyche

Ben Fountain’s 2016 election year essays for the Guardian have been expanded into a new book which tries to make sense of what happened and where America stands today. Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point and Outliers, first wrote about Fountain in an article for the New Yorker titled Late Bloomers in which he called Fountain a genius. They sat down this week in Brooklyn, New York, to talk Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton and the American psyche.

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