Malcolm Gladwell, author and New Yorker contributor, says that he has little recollection of 9/11. He is among a number of the magazine's contributors who were asked to look back on how the day changed their work and their lives.
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1. What were you thinking about, or working on, the day the attacks occurred?
I slept through the first attack, even though I was living only a mile or so away. But my downstairs neighbor woke me up in time for the second. I don't think I did much work that day.
2. Did 9/11 change your work plans?
I can't remember.
3. Are there places you've gone, or people you've met, that you wouldn't have if not for 9/11? Are you different than you might have been?
I would say that my life has been affected far more by the U.S. response to 9/11 than by 9/11 itself. It's like the rule with earthquakes. It's not the earthquake that's deadly. It's what happens after the earthquake.
Read Malcolm Gladwell's complete answers at the New Yorker.
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