GOSSIP with KELSEY MCKINNEY

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
| Location of Session: Texas Monthly Tent
Adult Sessions

Start of Signing: 5:15 pm
| Signing Location: Festival Marketplace

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About the Event

Can you keep a secret? It’s harder than it seems. After all, it’s only human to thirst after the juicy updates, jaw-dropping stories, and idle chatter that we collect with friends and colleagues. No one knows this better than journalist Kelsey McKinney, whose Normal Gossip podcast has accrued a listenership of millions. In You Didn’t Hear This From Me: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip, McKinney explores the murkiness of everyday storytelling.

About the Author

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Kelsey McKinney

Kelsey McKinney is a reporter and writer who lives in Philadelphia. She is the co-creator of Normal Gossip, as well as a co-owner and features writer at Defector.com. She has worked as a staff writer at Deadspin, Fusion, and Vox, and her reporting and essays have appeared in the New York Times, New York Magazine, GQ, Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Vanity Fair, and many others. Her first novel was God Spare the Girls. Her latest book is You Didn’t Hear This From Me: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip.

Moderator

Tori Pool

Tori Pool is a Texas writer, comedian and the director of events at Texas Public Radio, where she produces the station’s live storytelling series, Worth Repeating, and other community events. She is a three-time nominee for the San Antonio Current’s Best Stand-Up Comic and the coauthor of the card game Latino Card Revoked. In 2021, she was interviewed on Netflix is a Joke Radio, SiriusXM in a special segment for Hispanic Heritage month where she was named one of Cristela Alzonzo’s favorite up and comers. A regular at Texas comedy clubs, Pool has opened for great acts including Alonzo, Mo Amer, Chris Estrada, Tom Green, and Melissa Villaseñor. When she isn’t on stage, Tori enjoys cloud watching and begging her teenage son to just hang out with her.