Read and comment on the role of gossip according to Ozicks and your own observations in life and in literature.
Happy Holidays, and a very Happy New Year to you as well!
This essay, from the New York Times Sunday Book Review, explores Cynthia Ozicks' notion that "The Novel's Evil Tongue" comes from our seemingly innate desire and need to gossip. "When the world was just new," she states, "Story came into being, and it came with the beguilements of gossip, and tale-bearing, and rumor."
Read and comment on the role of gossip according to Ozicks and your own observations in life and in literature. Happy Holidays, and a very Happy New Year to you as well!
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