Curtis Yee

2 months ago | nsjonline.com | Curtis Yee

Kelsey McKinney bookends her new collection of essays on gossip with a word from Emily Dickinson: “Tell all the truth but tell it slant.”As the co-creator of the runaway hit podcast “Normal Gossip,” McKinney was well aware of gossip’s need for a PR makeover. But what started as a project to liberate the act from its designation as sin, villainized and demeaned as “women’s talk,” turned into something much more slippery.

2 months ago | sojo.net | Curtis Yee

JEAN-LUC GODARD'S 1967 anti-consumerist film Weekend is difficult to explain in the space of a column, but a single scene offers a cross-section of its absurdity. A bourgeois married couple begin a road trip to kill the wife’s parents and inherit their fortune. Naturally, once the deed is done, they each intend to kill the other and run off with their respective lovers. But first, they must maneuver traffic.

2 months ago | bhpioneer.com | Curtis Yee

Kelsey McKinney bookends her new collection of essays on gossip with a word from Emily Dickinson: “Tell all the truth but tell it slant.”As the co-creator of the runaway hit podcast “Normal Gossip," McKinney was well aware of gossip's need for a PR makeover. But what started as a project to liberate the act from its designation as sin, villainized and demeaned as “women’s talk,” turned into something much more slippery. kAmx?

2 months ago | postandcourier.com | Curtis Yee

YOU DIDN'T HEAR THIS FROM ME: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip. By Kelsey McKinney. Grand Central Publishing. 288 pages. $30. Kelsey McKinney bookends her new collection of essays on gossip with a word from Emily Dickinson: “Tell all the truth but tell it slant.”As the co-creator of the runaway hit podcast “Normal Gossip,” McKinney was well aware of gossip’s need for a PR makeover.

2 months ago | djournal.com | Curtis Yee

Kelsey McKinney bookends her new collection of essays on gossip with a word from Emily Dickinson: “Tell all the truth but tell it slant.”As the co-creator of the runaway hit podcast “Normal Gossip,” McKinney was well aware of gossip’s need for a PR makeover. But what started as a project to liberate the act from its designation as sin, villainized and demeaned as “women’s talk,” turned into something much more slippery. kAmx?