Cecily von ziegesar interview answers

As the great reckoning of our modern moment roils on, privilege is a filthy word and bullying is firmly out of fashion.

The closest we’ve got to garden-variety teenage tyrants are woke celebrities with late-night trolling tendencies, and we all know how that’s going. And yet… our love of mean girls in Manolos is hard to give up. Decades after its initial detonation, Gossip Girl, that ur text of Upper East Side excess and laissez-faire mores, shows no signs of dying down.

Coming on 20 years after publishing the first installment in the franchise, publisher Little Brown has reissued author Cecily von Ziegesar’s first three books with cover art whose chicly flat depictions look like Alex Katz prints than knapsack contraband.

Meanwhile, a 10-episode reboot of the cult television show, helmed by original producers Stephanie Savage and Josh Schwartz and written by original head writer Joshua Safran, debuts Ju