Gossip by Joseph Epstein

Author:Joseph Epstein
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Diary

Two sophisticated women meet on the corner of Seventy-ninth Street and Madison Avenue in Manhattan. One reports to the other that she has heard gossip that the New York Post columnist Max Lerner is soon to marry the still young, still ravishing Elizabeth Taylor. Since Lerner is far from comely, and his writings are crushingly boring in a way that suggests their author must be also, the second woman asks, "Are you sure about this?" The first woman replies that it comes from a very reliable source. "My Lord, Elizabeth Taylor and Max Lerner," says the second woman. "Well, I guess I'd rather fuck him than read him." Which has always seemed to me the most devastating criticism of an author I have ever heard.

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