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! 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?
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. Ages 15 up.Ziegesar in New York City, 2003. These bestselling books have been a guilty pleasure since day one this one's just guilty of a lot more. The body count is through the roof it's clear that von Ziegesar had fun with this one, and diehard fans will undoubtedly enjoy seeing their favorite self-absorbed characters take on murderous traits as well. Meanwhile, Blair is busy hating her mother's boyfriend ("Cyrus Rose was a completely annoying, fat loser who deserved to die by strangulation perhaps, after getting his bulbous neck stuck in the cord of his horrible red silk bathrobe"), wondering whether to go all the way with Nate, and tiring of playing second fiddle to Serena. Serena has returned to town from boarding school (where she dispatched several classmates), and her next target is Nate she doctors his pot stash with squirrel poison. Blair, Serena, and crew are back, as the author twists the events of the first book to include one gory, over-the-top death after another. until they die." Von Ziegesar climbs aboard the mashup train, turning her original Gossip Girl novel into a crime scene. "It's a luxe life, but someone's got to live it.
Īmerican Psycho's Patrick Bateman has met his match in Manhattan's newest, most fabulous trendsetting serial killers, Blair Waldorf and Serena van der Woodsen. Her attempted murder doesn't go unnoticed by Blair, however, who isn't about to let Serena kill whoever she wants-not when there's Cyrus Rose and Chuck Bass and Titi Coates and everyone else who's ever irritated Blair to get rid of first. If that means killing him, well, c'est la vie. But here's where our dark tale takes a turn: Serena decides that the only way for her to make things right with Blair is to eliminate Nate. Just as in the original story, Serena returns from boarding school hoping to make amends with her BFF Blair Waldorf-things just haven't been the same since Nate Archibald came between them. So begins Gossip Girl, Psycho Killer, a re-imagined and expanded slasher edition of the first groundbreaking Gossip Girl novel, featuring all new grisly scenes and over-the-top gore by #1 New York Times bestselling author Cecily von Ziegesar. It's a luxe life, but someone's got to live it. Welcome to New York City's Upper East Side, where my friends and I live, go to school, play, and sleep-sometimes with each other.