“We’re running the Gawker for every little town in America,” Topix CEO Chris Tolles told the newspaper. Gossip is as much a stereotype of life in many small, U.S. towns as fish fries and ...

A fraught, enraging portrait of an underage pregnancy that eats away at the hypocritical, self-deceiving heart of small-town Quebec. A moody, clenched drama that works its tension so deep you may ...

as well as a look at a marriage that is falling apart amid small-town gossip. Throw in a creepy, foreboding house that seems to change its inhabitants for an extra layer of suspense. Emma Palmer ...

But in small towns there are complications. The same Web sites created as places for candid talk about local news and politics are also hubs of unsubstantiated gossip, stirring widespread ...