From the host of the Normal Gossip podcast, anexploration of our obsession with gossip that weaves together journalism, cultural criticism, and memoir.
Contains some amusing historical accounts ... The book is laden with references to very recent history; topics that were obviously the talk of le tout internet at the time of writing but already feel dated ... I...lost track of what the point was ... Much juicier are the anonymous anecdotes and vignettes slipped between chapters, which serve to illustrate how gossip is used in real life ... The essays don’t dig deep enough into her ambivalence about gossip to come away with any big ideas.
