Malcolm Gladwell deftly moved on from his Wednesday remarks at BEA’s IDPF conference at a party thrown by publisher Little, Brown for his forthcoming book David and Goliath on Thursday night. He referred to his “disaster of yesterday” when he apparently “said I was in favor of turning the New York Public library into condos,” remarking facetiously “who knew that people would be offended by that?”Gladwell was pitch-perfect in telling his own retelling of the David and Goliath story that sets the theme for his next book. As with the Paul Revere story that was one of the signatures of […]
