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My first pleasurable task for this issue is to introduce and welcome Katrin Horn as an associate editor of the Edith Wharton Review. Katrin is an assistant professor of American studies at the University of Bayreuth. From 2019 to 2022, she was the principal investigator in a project on the economy and epistemology of gossip in nineteenth-century US American literature and culture (funded by the German Research Foundation), where she has, among others, developed the digital project ArchivalGossip.com. Her monograph Gossip in US American Literature and Culture, 1850–1920 is under contract with Edinburgh University Press. Her most recent publications on the role of gossip in literature, archives, and magazines include articles in the Edith Wharton Review (2019, 2021), the European Journal of American Studies (2020), and Anglia (2020). She is also the coeditor of a special issue of Studies in American Naturalism on “Intimate Knowledge in American Realism and...