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My Brilliant Mistakes | Cynthia Closkey’s blog (mybrilliantmistakes.com):
… If it’s an elaborate joke, no writer appears to get it. In 2005, the New York Post’s "Page Six" took his Moth presentation at face value, as did Chris Wilson, the author of a 2006 Washingtonianprofileof Gladwell, who wasn’t discouraged by Gladwell to think otherwise. I confess that when I heard Gladwell’s recording on TAL, I was surprised. This was one of my current writing heroes, talking about how he …

My Brilliant Mistakes | Cynthia Closkey’s blog (www.closkey.com):
… If it’s an elaborate joke, no writer appears to get it. In 2005, the New York Post’s "Page Six" took his Moth presentation at face value, as did Chris Wilson, the author of a 2006 Washingtonianprofileof Gladwell, who wasn’t discouraged by Gladwell to think otherwise. I confess that when I heard Gladwell’s recording on TAL, I was surprised. This was one of my current writing heroes, talking about how he …

Gawker, Manhattan Media News and Gossip (gawker.com):
… be obvious if you listen to it, my story definitely belongs to the "tall tale" category. I hope you enjoy it. But please do so with a rather large grain of salt. Gladwell has been telling the story of getting "perverse and often baffling" into theWashington Post for years. And as he says at the end of the story, you can look it up: He really did get the phrase in the paper (we found it on Nexis!). The story is not a total fabrication. On some level, Gladwell wants it both ways: He wants to tell a funny story, which the …