"man," I said, "there's nothing like a bit of dirty literary gossip, is there?"
At some point, perhaps this one, literary gossip may offer more than its customers want.
By now, the outlines of Kosinski's life are fairly well known to those who keep up with literary gossip.
Together they wrote three books of a unique mix of travel writing, reminiscence, and literary gossip.
The boxing story in which he figured with Hemingway had entered the annals of literary gossip well before.
It's surprising that anyone could get much worked up about this, even in London, the global epicenter of literary gossip and scandal.
He seldom goes to book parties, and he doesn't follow the literary gossip.
But you're quite right about Guardian Books consistently preferring literary gossip to anything of substance.
Small and excitable, he can shift in a moment from literary theory to literary gossip.
When he turns to literary gossip, however, his tone becomes strained and coy.