Dish: How Gossip Became the News and the News Became Just Another Show

Dish: How Gossip Became the News and the News Became Just Another Show

by Jeannette Walls
Dish: How Gossip Became the News and the News Became Just Another Show

Dish: How Gossip Became the News and the News Became Just Another Show

by Jeannette Walls

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Overview

“Provocative and invariably entertaining” a #1 New York Times bestselling author “gives dishing the dirt its historical, social and political due” (Publishers Weekly).

From #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Castle, now a major motion picture, comes an incisive study of our obsession with gossip.

Gossip. It’s more than just hearsay, society columns, and supermarket tabloids. It has, like it or not, become a mainstay of American pop culture. In Dish, industry insider Jeannette Walls gives this intriguing subject its due, offering a comprehensive, serious exploration of gossip and its social, historical, and political significance. Examining the topic from the inside out, Walls looks at the players; the origins of gossip, from birth of People magazine to the death of Lady Di; and how technology including the Internet will continue to change the face of gossip. As compelling and seductive as its subject matter, Dish brilliantly reveals the fascinating inner workings of a phenomenon that is definitely here to stay.

“A history of how gossip became the news . . . Saucy, sassy . . .” —Los Angeles Times

“Truly intelligent and absorbing.” —The Boston Sunday Globe

Dish is a mouthful.” —San Antonio Express News

“A serious and accurate history of a persistent part of media coverage.” —St. Louis Post-Dispatch

“Extraordinary.” —Don Imus

“Hard to put down . . . Dish is irresistible.” —US Weekly

“It’s an old-fashioned sideshow, high-spirited, mean-spirited, and plenty of guilty fun.” —Kirkus Reviews

“Strewn with delicious tidbits.” —Entertainment Weekly

Well-researched and intelligent.” —New York Daily News

“Both an entertaining insider’s look and a solid history of gossip.” —Library Journal

“A fascinating, dishy story.” —Booklist

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780062031303
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 11/21/2023
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 388
Sales rank: 89,277
File size: 3 MB

About the Author

About The Author

Jeannette Walls graduated from Barnard College and was a journalist in New York. Her memoir, The Glass Castle, has been a New York Times bestseller for more than six years. She is also the author of the instant New York Timesbestsellers The Silver Star and Half Broke Horses, which was named one of the ten best books of 2009 by the editors of The New York Times Book Review. Walls lives in rural Virginia with her husband, the writer John Taylor.

Hometown:

Culpeper, Virginia

Date of Birth:

April 21, 1960

Place of Birth:

Phoenix, Arizona

Education:

B.A., Barnard College, 1984
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