Blank: The Party

At an Uppper East Side duplex last night, some bold-faced folk gathered to celebrate Blank, the parody of Malcolm Gladwell’s bestseller Blink written by “Noah Tall”, aka ESPN books editor Michael Solomon and Adweek columnist Lewis Grossberger. A spy reports: While Michael and Lewis were officially the guests of honor they were happily upstaged at their own party by one of the attendees. In a room that included such media machers as Elle editor Roberta Myers, BusinessWeek editor Stephen Adler, CBS’ Gil Schwartz, VH1’s Michael Hirschorn, HarperCollins’ Jane Friedman and David Hirshey, New York Times writers Joyce Wadler and Campbell Robertson, and the “fantasically witty” Susan Lehman whose Ed Hayes book drops this week, all heads turned when the shaggy head of Malcolm Gladwell himself entered the room. Fresh off his profile in Sunday’s New York Times Book Review, Gladwell arrived about an hour into the party and posed for photos (this one features Grossberger, Gladwell, Friedman, Hirshey, Solomon) with his satirists. Before leaving, he even asked for a signed copy of Blank. And when “Noah Tall” handed back the inscribed book, Grossberger joked “I trust you’ll be sending us the galley of your next book so we can get to work on our next book.”