Malcolm in the Middle (of 'Lucky')
Lucky editors can neither read, nor spell, but they sure can plug! We were going to lay off Lucky and its beauty fascist editor, Jean Godfrey-June (since we mentioned her earlier), but this is begging for abuse.
After last month
s issue—in which editor-in-chief Kim France used her editor
s letter to give New Yorker writer Malcolm Gladwell a healthy plug of his new book, Blink—Ms. Godfrey-June shamelessly follows suit with his previous book, The Tipping Point:
You wouldn
t think that Malcom [sic] Gladwell
s best-selling The Tipping Point ($14.95, Amazon.com) would qualify as a self-help book, but it changed the life of my naturally social friend, L. who is often beset by jealous types who demean her as shallow and overcommitted.
First of all: Jean,
Malcom
would like to buy an
L.
Secondly, the tenuous connection to the deep cleansing shampoo you try to make several paragraphs later? Not so effective.