Now, Gossip Girl is poised to captivate another generation on HBOMax, where writer and showrunner Joshua Safran (an alum of the CW show) has rebooted the series, with a twist. The books were banned in school libraries around the country meanwhile, the show used the barbs of its critics, like “every parent’s nightmare” and “a very nasty piece of work,” as advertising fodder. Now a cult classic, the show’s racy tales of sex, scandal, and heartache among the uber-privileged earned the devotion of teens and the outrage of parents, resulting in a bona fide cultural phenomenon. Though the Gossip Girl series became a New York Times bestseller when the third book hit shelves in 2003, Von Ziegesar credits the CW’s television adaptation, launched to great fanfare in 2007, with transforming her characters into household names.
When Cecily Von Ziegesar started writing the Gossip Girlseries in the early 2000s, she expected her books to “fizzle and die on the shelf”-now, nearly two decades later, they’ve been adapted for television a second time over, coinciding with a splashy reissuing of the first three installments.
Not many writers can say that their bestselling series gave rise not just to one hit television show, but two.
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