Writer Malcolm Gladwell admitted at the New Yorker Festival party at Andaz 5th Avenue that being named one of Time magazine's "Most Influential" people in 2005 "was nice," but he calls it a "depreciating asset." According to Gladwell, "They've called so many other people important in the ensuing five or six years that the distinction is becoming smaller by the day. They declare 100 people important every year, they're 15 years in. They have 1,500 important people." (In all fairness, Time has only had 14 such lists.) Also attending the party were Sarah Silverman , the band Vampire Weekend and Vanity Fair party writer Bennett Marcus .