Gossip : the untrivial pursuit /

Gossip : the untrivial pursuit /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:Epstein, Joseph, 1937-
Imprint:Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011.
Description:xiii, 242 p. ; 22 cm.
Language:English
Subject:
Gossip.
Gossip.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8543565
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ISBN:9780618721948
0618721940
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [220]-222) and index..
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.
Table of Contents:
  • 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
  • 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
  • Private into public
  • Caught in the net
  • Whores of information
  • Snooping and scooping : great gossips of the western world IV
  • Too much even of Kreplach.

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