Gossip girl book 1
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As befits the original Gossip Girl.Once upon a time, on New York City's Upper East side, two beautiful girls fell in love with one perfect boy.And the rest, as they say, is history. I think what you’ve revealed here is that you are a very observant person. I feel like I’ve now gone way into too much detail. It was on Gramercy Park with the curtains billowing and the window and looking out over the park…. Do you know those books? They’re out of print, but they’re these beautiful, special little hardcover books. But she has grandchildren, and we wound up talking about books we loved as children. And I felt like a huge disappointment, I was so starstruck. Wait, really? What was that like? Did she stare into your soul and see your biggest character flaws? I was so flattered that I got in touch with The New Yorker, like, “How do I say thank you?” And they put me in touch with her, and she invited me to tea at her house. The most amazing thing that’s ever happened to me was when Janet Malcolm out of nowhere wrote this incredible article about them in The New Yorker. The books were just considered, whatever, pulp fiction. Really? But your name is so much more recognizable. Which sounds possibly like it could be someone we know? Speaking of geniuses, Roy, the writer, spends most of the book worrying about what he’s going to write after publishing a very successful series. I for one am not expecting to get one at all, so it would very much be a surprise, if anyone is wondering. You shouldn’t! It should always only be a surprise. He’s sure he’s going to get one this year.” And I was like, “Oh, wow, I’m going to use that for Elizabeth.” You have to have a pretty big ego to be waiting for your MacArthur!
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I remember he was asking somebody he used to work with about their old boss, and they were like, “Oh, he’s just waiting to hear from the MacArthur Foundation. My husband works with artists and Elizabeth, I think, is a satirization of some of the artists I’ve met through him. Please tell me that happened in real life. What about the characters, are any of them based on actual people? I’m thinking of the conceptual artist Elizabeth, who explodes herself out of a fetus. Have you stolen your neighbors’ Blue Apron boxes, the way that your character Mandy does? Is this something you want to come clean about here in Vanity Fair ? The Blue Apron boxes, just seeing all these things accumulating outside and wondering, Are they going to pick that up, or is that all going bad?
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It’s a program and they have their windows open all the time, they’re blasting music, and the whole place smells like weed. Right over here, the building behind us, the people that lived there were formerly homeless. I keep saying, “It’s fiction, it’s fiction.” But there’s so many tiny, little moments. How much of the book is based in reality? And I’m like, what do they do? Do they have jobs? I mean, right now, obviously everyone is at home. Whenever I walk the dog or get out of the house I do a lot of walking around, and I always see people doing…the same thing I’m doing. That’s part of my fascination with Cobble Hill. They were all doing a lot of hanging out. The mean streets of Cobble Hill! Anyway, I was saying, since you mentioned Brooklyn was relaxing, I did notice your characters seemed relatively unbusy, for modern New Yorkers.