Emily Gould

For the school founder, see Emily Bliss Gould.
Emily Gould
Gould in 2009
Gould in 2009
Born (1981-10-13) October 13, 1981 (age 43)
Silver Spring, Maryland, U.S.
Occupation
  • Writer
  • editor
  • blogger
GenreFiction, non-fiction
Website
emilygould.com

Emily Gould (born October 13, 1981) is an American author, novelist and blogger who worked as an editor at Gawker.[1][2][3] She has written several short stories and novels and is the co-owner, with fellow writer Ruth Curry, of the independent e-bookstore Emily Books.

Education

Gould graduated from Eugene Lang College after attending Kenyon College.[4]

Career

Gould began her blogging career as one half of The Universal Review before starting her own blog, Emily Magazine,[5] and writing for Gawker on a freelance basis. Before joining the Gawker staff, Gould was an associate editor at Disney's Hyperion imprint.[6] Gould's work for Gawker eventually attracted media attention from several publications including The New York Times, as well as significant controversy.[7][8][9][10] She left Gawker in November 2007.[11]

Gould is the co-author, with Zareen Jaffery, of the young-adult novel Hex Education, which was released by Penguin's Razorbill imprint in May 2007.[12] She is also the author of a collection of essays, And the Heart Says Whatever, published by Free Press in May 2010.[1] Her semi-autobiographical novel Friendship was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2014).[13]

Gould is the co-owner, with fellow writer Ruth Curry, of the independent e-bookstore Emily Books.[14][15] Emily Books has a publishing imprint with Coffee House Press.[16]

Controversies

Gawker Stalker and Jimmy Kimmel

On April 6, 2007, Gould appeared on an episode of Larry King Live hosted by talk show host Jimmy Kimmel during a panel discussion titled "Paparazzi: Do they go too far?"[17] During the interview, Kimmel accused Gould of irresponsible journalism resulting from Gould's popular blog and the "Gawker Stalker" feature, which allowed users to update the whereabouts of celebrities in New York City. Kimmel mentioned the possibility of assisting real stalkers, adding that Gould and her website could ultimately be responsible for someone's death, and that Gawker.com's content was frequently untruthful. Gould stated that the section of the website represented "citizen journalism" and went on to say that no one expected everything in the section to be true. The interview attracted media attention and resulted in an overwhelmingly negative response for Gould.[2][18][19]

On May 4, 2007, Gould reacted to the interview in an op-ed she wrote for The New York Times.[20] A lengthy article she wrote about her experiences with Gawker.com was the New York Times Magazine cover story on May 25, 2008. In it, she described how the negative response to her television appearance caused her to suffer panic attacks, which led her to seek therapy.[21] In a March 2020 article, Gould recounts the incident and discusses the concept of shame in relation to it.[22]

Lena Dunham feud

Gould has also attracted criticism and controversy for her public feud with the actor and writer Lena Dunham.[23][24] In her novel Friendship, Gould discussed an evening she spent with Dunham when they met at a dinner party hosted by a mutual friend who lives in the same Brooklyn Heights building as Dunham. Gould mentioned how Dunham's success made her jealous and spoke about the encounter in several media interviews during the promotion of Friendship.[24][25] Girls showrunner Jennifer Konner later posted several negative tweets in response to Gould's article in The New York Times.[26][27] Dunham unfollowed Gould on Twitter and, according to Gould, direct-messaged her saying, "you fully suck, I was going to promote your book but you need to get a better talk show story," referring to Gould having spoken about her on talk shows and in interviews.[23][28]

In an interview with The Huffington Post, Gould revealed that she was "very upset" about the public fallout with Dunham and that she remains "a big fan" of hers.[29] Gould later wrote an article for Salon defending Dunham against sexual-abuse accusations stemming from accounts Dunham gave in her essay collection Not That Kind of Girl.[30]

Personal life

Gould is from a Jewish family,[31] and has been married to the novelist Keith Gessen since October 2014.[32] They live in Brooklyn, New York.[6] In 2022, she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder.[33] She has celiac disease.

Works

  • Hex Education. Illustrator Zareen Jaffery, Razorbill, 2007, ISBN 9781595141187
  • And the Heart Says Whatever. Simon and Schuster. 4 May 2010. ISBN 978-1-4391-3734-5.[5][34][35]
  • Friendship: A Novel. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 1 July 2014. ISBN 978-0-374-71089-7.[5][36]
  • Perfect Tunes (Simon & Schuster, 2020)

References

  1. ^ a b "And the Heart Says Whatever". Publishers Weekly. May 2010. Retrieved August 11, 2015.
  2. ^ a b "Sorkin Recreated This 2007 Fight Between Kimmel and Gawker on The Newsroom". www.mediaite.com. 9 December 2014. Retrieved 2016-04-23.
  3. ^ Hicklin, Aaron (2014-12-14). "Overstepping the bounds: how blogger Emily Gould has been oversharing". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2016-04-23.
  4. ^ Windolf, Jim (30 April 2009). "You've Got (Hate) Mail". Vanity Fair. Retrieved 16 April 2019.
  5. ^ a b c La Ferla, Ruth (1 July 2014). "Hitting the refresh button". Chicago Tribune. Chicago, Illinois. pp. 1A 3–5. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
  6. ^ a b Lundquist, Molly. "Friendship: A Novel - Emily Gould - Author Biography - LitLovers". www.litlovers.com. Retrieved 2016-04-23.
  7. ^ Gould, Emily (2008-05-25). "Emily Gould - Exposed - Blog-Post Confidential - Gawker". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2016-04-23.
  8. ^ Denton, Nick. "Emily Gould Introduces Oversharing To New York Times Magazine". Gawker. Archived from the original on 2016-04-17. Retrieved 2016-04-23.
  9. ^ Sykes, Rachel (24 July 2015). "To overshare: the long and gendered history of TMI". The Conversation. Retrieved 2016-04-23.
  10. ^ "She's over oversharing: Emily Gould, blogger and memoirist, turns to fiction". NY Daily News. Retrieved 2016-04-23.
  11. ^ Hadadi, Roxana (2010-05-24). "New York Stories: Emily Gould, 'And the Heart Says Whatever'". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2016-02-09.
  12. ^ Amanda MacGregor (September 2008). "Gould, Emily & Jaffery, Zareen. Hex education.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)". Kliatt. Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved August 11, 2015.
  13. ^ Kakutani, Michiko (June 30, 2014). "A Lucy and Ethel for an Age After Blogs". The New York Times.
  14. ^ "Emily Books – We're a publishing house sometimes, an eBook of the month club always, and a literary community that brings people together". www.emilybooks.com. Retrieved 2016-04-23.
  15. ^ Billfold, The. "Falling Into Debt After a $200,000 Book Advance — The Billfold". Medium. Retrieved 2016-04-23.
  16. ^ Claire Kirch (2015-03-04). "Coffee House Launches First Imprint with Emily Books". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2017-11-30.
  17. ^ Kimmel Takes On Gawker Stalker on YouTube
  18. ^ Shepherd, Julianne Escobedo (8 December 2014). "A Terrible Episode With Worse Timing: The Newsroom Tackles Campus Rape". Jezebel. Retrieved 2016-04-23.
  19. ^ Doyle, Sady (2 March 2011). "What Aaron Sorkin, Jon Stewart, and Tina Fey Learned From Their Internet Critics". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2016-04-23.
  20. ^ Gould, Emily (May 4, 2007). "Coordinates of the Rich and Famous". The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-05-26.
  21. ^ Gould, Emily (May 25, 2008). "Exposed". The New York Times Magazine. Retrieved 2008-05-26.
  22. ^ Gould, Emily (26 February 2020). "Replaying My Shame". The Cut. New York Media. Retrieved 6 March 2020.
  23. ^ a b "Lena Dunham's feud with author Emily Gould". ca.celebrity.yahoo.com. 9 July 2014. Retrieved 2016-04-23.
  24. ^ a b "How Emily Gould Published a Novel, Lost Her Job, and Provoked Lena Dunham. In 1 Week". The Cut. 30 June 2014. Retrieved 2016-04-23.
  25. ^ "Emily Gould, Gawker's Original Oversharer, Hits Refresh". ELLE. 2014-06-16. Retrieved 2016-04-23.
  26. ^ "Girls EP Jenni Konner on 'Horrible' Women and That Wig Scene from How to Get Away With Murder". Vulture. 25 October 2014. Retrieved 2016-04-23.
  27. ^ "Jenni Konner on Twitter". Twitter. Retrieved 2016-04-23.
  28. ^ "Webs They Weave: David Shapiro x Emily Gould". Interview Magazine. 2 July 2014. Retrieved 2016-04-23.
  29. ^ "Emily Gould Talks 'Friendship,' Lena Dunham Spat". The Huffington Post. 2014-07-21. Retrieved 2016-04-23.
  30. ^ Gould, Emily (4 November 2014). "The right's Lena Dunham nonsense just won't stop". Salon. Retrieved 2016-04-23.
  31. ^ Emily Gould (2007). "Deconstructing Deborah". Guilt & Pleasure. Archived from the original on May 15, 2016. Retrieved June 11, 2016. And when my mom, a convert whose religious enthusiasm continually perplexes my mostly secular Jewish family
  32. ^ Hicklin, Aaron (2014-12-14). "Overstepping the bounds: how blogger Emily Gould has been oversharing". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2016-02-09.
  33. ^ "The Lure of Divorce: Seven years into my marriage, I hit a breaking point — and had to decide whether life would be better without my husband in it", Emily Gould 2024-02-14, New York Magazine
  34. ^ Cline, Rob (22 August 2010). "Book Review. Oversharing is theme - or whatever". The Gazette. Cedar Rapids, Iowa. p. 2L. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
  35. ^ Reynolds, Susan Salter (2 May 2010). "Book Review. Discoveries. And The Heart Says Whatever". The Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles, California. p. E15. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
  36. ^ Heller, Karen (13 July 2014). "Book review. A novel of sorts: It's more memoir with a little plot". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. pp. H1, H4. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
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