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Dishing the dirt: Gossip ‘can be mean, ugly, vicious, but also witty, daring, entirely charming’
Ottawa Citizen
He acknowledges “the ferociously bad press” gossip receives nowadays and the way it has been dismissed as trivial, vulgar, “the intellectual equivalent of chewing gum.” But, guess what, it has always been thus. In the Judaic tradition, for instance,...
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But what exactly is gossip? How does it work? Why do we find it so tempting? What is it good for? How has it changed over the years? These are the questions Joseph Epstein sets out to answer in his recently-published book, Gossip. An essayist and short...
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I was thinking the other day that every single major story in the news, Herman Cain, Joe Paterno, Justin Bieber, was essentially gossip
– Joseph Epstein SOURCE: Boston Herald -
Besides, much has improved since Dickens: more disciplined trials; delays measured in months, not lifetimes; fewer openly inebriated judges. Unshaken is the perception that we worship an object called the Fee. Yet the essayist Joseph Epstein, another...
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The Old Bunch | Meyer Levin | Destiny's Children | Masterpiece by Joseph Epstein - WSJ.com. The method is that of realism. Details add up to form character, and character becomes destiny. For example, young Sam Eisen's strain of nonconformity impels...
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Digital self-publishing might be a bubble, but the hordes of would-be authors will never run out
Melville House PublishingYesterday at The Guardian Ewan Morrison mentions this fact while arguing that the recent excitement about digital self-publishing is nothing more than a classic investment bubble that prays on this widespread desire. It’s a bubble, Morrison writes,...
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I grew up in Chicago and Irv Kupcinet was the most powerful man in the city ... But the power of these columnists has lessened now that it’s so disbursed.
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Joseph Epstein Meyer Levin is best remembered, if at all, as the author of the novel "Compulsion" (1956), based on the Leopold and Loeb murder case of the 1920s. But Mr. Levin (1905-81) wrote several novels, and one of them, "The Old Bunch" (1937),...
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Epstein is perhaps America’s most well-known familiar essayist, and I’ve read all of his books — unless I’ve not heard of one or two. Not that it matters except for this: I speak from experience when I say he may be America’s best familiar essayist. The...
About Joseph Epstein
Wikipedia
Joseph Epstein (born January 9, 1937) is a Chicagoan essayist, short story writer, and editor, best known as a former editor of the Phi Beta Kappa Society's The American Scholar magazine and for his recent essay collection, Snobbery: The American Version. He was also a lecturer at Northwestern University from 1974 - 2002. He is a Contributing... Full Article
