The Gossip Columnist

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Career Prep

“As a budding journalist in New York, folks warned her that life as a gossip columnist could be tough. ‘People will yell at you and treat you horribly and threaten you,’ and I thought, ‘So? That’s the way I was raised,’ she said.”

—Jeannette Walls, journalist, gossip columnist and author of The Glass Castle, philly.com, Aug. 10, 2017. (Thanks to alert WORDster Mark Larson)

• Editorial Comment: That sounds about right.


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