Gossip : the untrivial pursuit / Joseph Epstein.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011.Description: xiii, 242 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0618721940 : HRD
  • 9780618721948
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 302.2/4 22
LOC classification:
  • BJ1535.G6 E67 2011
Contents:
Pt. 1. Private gossip. How it works ; Feasible, uncheckable, deeply damning ; When is it all right to gossip? ; In the know ; Great gossips of the western world I ; The truth defense ; The gossip transaction ; Need gossip be trivial? ; Pure speculation -- Pt. 2. Public gossip. Gossip goes public ; Gossip in center ring ; Shooting at celebrities ; Great gossips of the western world II ; Antedeluvian gossip ; Literary gossip ; Gay gossip ; Great gossips of the western world III -- Pt. 3. Private becomes public ; Caught in the net ; Whores of information ; Snooping and scooping : great gossips of the western world IV ; Too much even of Kreplach.
Summary: A juicy, incisive exploration of gossip in all its forms--from celebrity rumors to literary "romans a clef," from personal sniping to political slander.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-223) and index.

Pt. 1. Private gossip. How it works ; Feasible, uncheckable, deeply damning ; When is it all right to gossip? ; In the know ; Great gossips of the western world I ; The truth defense ; The gossip transaction ; Need gossip be trivial? ; Pure speculation -- Pt. 2. Public gossip. Gossip goes public ; Gossip in center ring ; Shooting at celebrities ; Great gossips of the western world II ; Antedeluvian gossip ; Literary gossip ; Gay gossip ; Great gossips of the western world III -- Pt. 3. Private becomes public ; Caught in the net ; Whores of information ; Snooping and scooping : great gossips of the western world IV ; Too much even of Kreplach.

A juicy, incisive exploration of gossip in all its forms--from celebrity rumors to literary "romans a clef," from personal sniping to political slander.

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