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Authors: Joseph Epstein

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royalty, gossip about,
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See also
celebrities, celebrity

Rubria,
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rumors,
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Russell, Bertrand,
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Ruth, Babe,
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Ryle, Gilbert,
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Sainte-Beuve, Charles Augustin,
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Saint-Simon, Duc de (Louis de Rouvroy)

complaints by,
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compliments,
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forgiveness and,
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gossip about,
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as gossip historian,
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influence,
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loss of favor,
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and Louis XIV,
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Memoirs
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motives, speculation about,
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politics and ethics,
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wife,
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Saint-Simon, Duchesse de,
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Salovey, Peter,
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Sanders, George,
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Santayana, George,
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Sarah Lawrence College,
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Sartre, Jean-Paul,
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Saturday Night Live
(TV show),
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Saumery,
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Sawyer, Diane,
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Scandal: A Scurrilous History of Gossip
(Wilkes),
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Scarlet Letter, The
(Hawthorne),
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Schadenfreude,
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Schickel, Richard,
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Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr.,
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scholarly gossip,
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Scoop
(Waugh),
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scoops,
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Scorpion Tongues: The Irresistible History of Gossip in American Politics
(Collins),
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Scott, Randolph,
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secrets

assumptions about,
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breaching,
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as key element of gossip,
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Seinfeld
(TV show),
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Seinfeld, Jerry,
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self-gossip,
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See also
blogs

sensationalism,
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sexual gossip.
See also
gay gossip

and changing social norms,
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in 21th-century newspapers,
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about politicians,
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popularity of,
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purveyors of,
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subjects of,
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among young boys,
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Shakespeare, William (
Comedy of Errors
),
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Shawn, Cecille,
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Shawn, William

editorship of
The New Yorker,
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gossip about,
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public vs. private persona,
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Simmel, Georg,
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Simpson, O. J.,
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Simpson, Wallis (Duchess of Windsor),
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sin, gossip as,
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Sinatra, Frank,
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Singer, Isaac Bashevis,
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sins vs. virtue, as subject of gossip,
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62 Minutes
(TV show),
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slander,
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Smith, Liz,
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Smith, Logan Pearsall,
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Smith, Sydney,
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Smith, Will,
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snobbery, name-dropping,
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Sobol, Louis,
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"social analysis,"
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"Social Comparison Account of Gossip, A" (Wert and Salovey),
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social networking,
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social norms

and access to gossip,
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and candor,
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and concepts of good taste,
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and gossip-worthy behaviors,
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impacts of gossip on,
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and increased tolerance,
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social uses of gossip,
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society papers,
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Socrates,
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Solove, Daniel J.,
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Sontag, Susan,
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Spacks, Patricia Meyer,
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Spectator,
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speculation, as invitation to gossip,
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Sport
magazine,
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Sporus,
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spreading gossip,
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See also
audience for gossip

Springsteen, Bruce,
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"square" society,
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Stanley, Henry,
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status needs,
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See also
celebrities, celebrity

Steele, Richard,
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Stein, Jean and Jules,
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Stendhal,
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Stevenson, Adlai,
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Stewart, Martha,
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Stork Club,
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Stuart, Lyle,
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subversive gossip,
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Suetonius,
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Sullivan, Andrew,
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Sunday Express,
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Sunday Times,
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Sunstein, Cass,
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support groups,
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Susann, Jacqueline,
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Sweet Smell of Success
(movie),
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Symposium, The
(Plato),
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tabloid press,
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Talese, Gay,
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"talk against others,"
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Talk
magazine,
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talk-radio shows,
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Talleyrand,
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Talmud,
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Tatler
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Taylor, Elizabeth,
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technology, and expansion of audience for gossip,
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television

and celebrity,
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and public gossip,
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therapeutic gossip,
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Thrale, Hester,
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Thury, Marquis de,
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Thy Neighbor's Wife
(Talese),
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Tiberius,
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Tilden, Bill,
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Time
magazine,
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Times
(London),
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Times Literary Supplement,
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Tina and Harry Come to America
(Bachrach),
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TMZ
(TV show),
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TMZ.com,
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TMZsports.com blog,
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Tóibín, Colm,
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Tolstoy, Leo,
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Tonight Show, The,
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Toscanini, Arturo,
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Town Topics,
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Trevor-Roper, Hugh,
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Trilling, Diana and Lionel,
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Trilling, James,
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trivial gossip,
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Trollope, Anthony,
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Truman, Harry,
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truth

gossip as,
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of gossip, determining,
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and Internet gossip,
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and public vs. private self,
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Turgenev, Ivan,
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Turner, Lana,
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Twitter,
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Tynan, Kathleen and Kenneth,
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types of gossip,
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unedited information,
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United States

celebrity culture,
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changes in cultural norms,
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libel laws,
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privacy vs. publicity in,
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Updike, John,
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Ursins, Madame des,
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US Weekly,
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vanity, revealing,
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Vanity Fair
magazine

Brown's editorship of,
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changes in content, tone,
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Dickinson interview,
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Miller story in,
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Newhouse purchase of,
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Vaudeville News,
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Vendôme, Duc de,
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Versailles palace,
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victimhood.
See
revenge

Vidal, Gore,
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View, The
(TV show),
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Villeroy, Duchess de,
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Virgin Soil
(Turgenev),
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Voltaire,
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voyeurism,
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vulnerability, universality of,
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WABC,
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Waiting for Winter
(O'Hara),
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Walker, Jimmy,
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Wall Street Journal,
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Walters, Barbara

acting career,
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Audition,
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childhood and education,
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daughter,
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interviews conducted by,
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marriages and divorces,
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