I was happy to see this review of When Private Talk Goes Public. I wrote a chapter about the women’s pages of newspapers in the 1950s and 1960s. From New Books in American Studies:“Across a series of twelve essays, When Private Talk Goes Public: Gossip in American History (Palgrave McMillan, 2014) examines the important and understudied role gossip has played in American history. Whether fashioned as “rumor, hearsay, tittle-tattle, scuttlebutt, scandal, [or] dirt,” gossip in its many forms is a central, if often discounted feature of American life. Kathleen A. Feeley and Jennifer A. Frost’s compilation spans five centuries, exploring gossip from the early colonial period through its modern reinvention…