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A dishy, incisive exploration of gossip - from movie star gossips to literary romans à clef, personal sniping to political slander - by one our "great essayists" (David Brooks). To his successful examinations of some of the most powerful causes in modern life - envy, ambition, snobbery, companionship - the eager observer and critic Joseph Epstein now adds Gossip. No trivial subject, despite its reputation, gossip, he argues, is an eternal and necessary real human venture. Proving that he himself is a get better at of the artwork, Epstein serves up delightful mini-biographies of the Great Gossips of the LADY along with many choice bits from his own experience. He also makes a robust circumstance that gossip has morphed from its old-fashioned best - brilliant, mocking, a great private pleasure - to a corrosive new-school version, thanks to the reach of the media and the Internet. Gossip has invaded and improved for the worse politics and journalism, leading to unsubstantiated information to be offered as fact. Modern day gossip promises to reveal fact, but as Epstein shows, it's our belief in truth that gossip today threatens to undermine and ruin. Written in his trademark erudite and witty style, Gossip captures the complexity of this immensely entertaining subject matter.
