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

jeannette walls

From Jeannette Walls, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Castle , now a major motion picture, comes an incisive study of our obsession with gossip. "A fascinating, dishy story." - Booklist 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 provocative 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 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.

Genres nonfictionhistorypop culturepsychologysociologybiographyculturaladultmemoir

384 pages, Paperback

First published January 1,2000

This edition

Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Published: January 23, 2001 by William Morrow Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780380810451
ASIN: 038081045X
Language: English

About the author

jeannette walls

Jeannette Walls is a writer and journalist.

Born in Phoenix, Arizona, she graduated with honors from Barnard College, the women's college affiliated with Columbia University. She published a bestselling memoir, The Glass Castle, in 2005. The book was adapted into a film and released to theaters in August, 2017.