Michelle Trachtenberg’s Comic Timing Shined Bright, From ‘Buffy’ to ‘Gossip Girl’ to Nickelodeon

On the page, the character of Harriet Welsch, the inquisitive and sharply judgmental preteen at the center of Louise Fitzhugh’s novel “Harriet the Spy,” is a little tough to take; her habit of writing down mean observations about her classmates is, rightly, seen by her peers as rather harsh. It works — Harriet learns valuable […]