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June 14th, 2019 • Quill Archives
The dirt on gossip columns

Susan Yerkes doesn’t like to call what she used to write a gossip column. “I never thought of what I wrote as that,” she said. “The word gossip, to me, has an unpleasant connotation, kind of a snarky one. I think of gossip as a kind of negative, personal besmirching.”