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Abbott listens to music to get on the right frequency.

Can a historical narrative ever be objective?

Abbott talks about how she could write about such dark materials.

We have a vicarious need to see how far we could go, Abbott says.

Probably, Abbott says.

It would depend, Abbott says, on their class background.

At this point, urbanization was starting to change the social dynamic of courtship, says Abbott.

Legalization would make an unavoidable practice safer.

Abbott describes the turn-of-the-century culture that created the conditions for white slavery.

Will the country ever shed its Puritan origins?

Chicago is still the most theatrically corrupt city, Abbott says.

What motivated the social and political reformers in early 20th-century Chicago?

Abbott’s book started with a lost great-great aunt, and ended with an exploration of the Everleigh sisters and the politics of sex in turn-of-the-century Chicago.

Abbott was always drawn to people’s darker impulses.

A Catholic school graduate writing about strippers and prostitutes. The nuns, Abbott says, would be proud.

Voters should focus on the issues, Fuller says.

Readers don’t turn to “Star” for political coverage, Fuller says

Law school was too boring.

Bonnie Fuller on surviving in a hostile work environment.

Cut yourself some slack, Fuller says.

Nothing but praise.

“Star,” Fuller says, gives readers a more complete picture than a blog.

Celebrities come in all different shapes and sizes.

Will gossip become more international?

Fuller does not condone long-range pictures.

The relationship is completely symbiotic, Fuller says.

Gossip is a social glue, Fuller says.

Fuller talks about turning “Star” Magazine around.

Two generations does not a dynasty make.

Adams was willing to suffer anything for a truly revolutionary ideal, McCullough says.