1.0 link 69691 <![CDATA[15 Going On 50: How Gossip Girl is Killing Youth Culture]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lesley-m-m-blume/15-going-on-50-how-gossip_b_69691.html As the writer of children's novels, I often get asked my opinion on the new CW series Gossip Girl.

Based on the popular young-adult book series, Gossip Girl supposedly exposes the seamy underbelly of Manhattan's Upper East Side overclass, which is addled by drugs, sex, and teeming trust funds. Its main characters backstab each other with relish against the backdrops of Henri Bendel, nightclubs, and the Palace Hotel (an aside: I'm not quite sure when the Palace Hotel became a...

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