Malcolm Gladwell Can Seduce Any Woman With His Dorkiness

In an instantly-controversial new piece on The Daily Beast, writer Sean Macaulay takes on Malcolm Gladwell, the New Yorker contributor, best-selling nonfiction author, and-- most importantly-- ladies man. Macaulay notes that Gladwell is basically an "inspirational" essayist, but his "triumph over the opposite sex could well be the most inspirational of all."

The strangely personal article reads as some sort of grand expose, as if Gladwell has been hounded about his sex life for years and Macaulay has finally found the dirt:

They drank some wine. They talked some more. He fluttered his long, slender fingers. He seemed so comfortable in his own skin, so authentic. He had this eerie feline self-assurance, and it was hypnotic. Forty minutes later, they were back at his place.

Since moving to New York in 1996, he’s cast his net wide and deep to amass a staggering tally of conquests. There’s been the poetess, the psychotherapist, the photographer, the filmmaker, the fact checker, the writer at The New Yorker, the bisexual literary siren....

And these are seriously attractive women, too. The tall blonde he took to Bar Blanc last December was so smoking hot, an eyewitness wrote that Gladwell “made all the guys in the restaurant want to write their own New York Times bestsellers! It was...like the high-school geek landing the prom queen—so wrong, yet so right. “

...Friends have a phrase for the bachelor maestro’s pixie-dust magic: They call it having “Malcolm powder” sprinkled in your eyes....

It gets worse from there. Read the whole shebang at The Daily Beast.

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