Dish by Jeanette Walls

Dish by Jeanette 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.

Jeannette Walls was a journalist in New York after graduating from Barnard College. For more than six years, her book, The Glass Castle, has been a New York Times bestseller. She's also the author of The Silver Star, which was an instant New York Times bestseller, and Half Broke Horses, which was voted one of The New York Times Book Review's ten greatest books of 2009. Walls and her writer husband, John Taylor, live in rural Virginia.