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Wharton is the Original Gossip Girl

By Sonya Chung posted at 4:01 pm on October 15, 2009 1

On this week’s New Yorker Out Loud podcast, Rebecca Mead recommends (seriously) Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth — “the real thing” — for teen-readers who love the Cecily von Ziegesar Gossip Girl series.

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Bites: Stephen Elliott in Williamsburg, McSweeney’s Broadsheet, the Original Gossip Girl, Lethem Recommends Poe, Balloon boy FAQ, and more « Vol. 1 Brooklyn
at 9:23 am on October 16, 2009
[...] High schoolers take note: Edith Wharton is the original gossip girl. [...]

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Sonya Chung is a staff writer for The Millions. She is the author of the novel Long for This World (Scribner 2010). Her stories, reviews, & essays have appeared in The Threepenny Review, Crab Orchard Review, Sonora Review, FiveChapters, and Tin House Magazine, among others. She is a recipient of a Pushcart Prize nomination, the Charles Johnson Fiction Award, the Bronx Council on the Arts Writers' Fellowship & Residency, and a MacDowell Colony Fellowship. She is a faculty member in the Creative Writing Program at Columbia University. You can learn more about Sonya and her work at www.sonyachung.com.

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