Cecily von Ziegesar is considering rising up. “I’m undecided how a lot you actually change in between being a teen and an grownup,” she says from the other finish of a bench in a small park within the Cobble Hill space of Brooklyn, the place we’re surrounded by costly carriage homes and brownstone townhouses. Because the creator and creator of Gossip Lady, the 13-book sequence turned tv phenomenon about wealthy youngsters residing in New York’s Higher East Facet — essentially the most elite and class-conscious neighbourhood in Manhattan — the creator is an knowledgeable on adolescence.
The zeitgeist-defining present, which ran from 2007 for six sequence, was like a Intercourse and the Metropolis for millennials and epitomised a sure Noughties extra that now appears