Dish Dish

Dish

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

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Publisher Description

“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

GENRE
Nonfiction
RELEASED
2010
November 16
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
388
Pages
PUBLISHER
HarperCollins
SELLER
OpenRoad Integrated Media, LLC
SIZE
7.7
MB
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