Emily Gould Explained

Emily Gould
Birth Date:13 October 1981
Birth Place:Silver Spring, Maryland, U.S.
Genre:Fiction, non-fiction

Emily Gould (born October 13, 1981) is an American author, novelist and blogger who worked as an editor at Gawker.[1] [2] 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.[3]

Career

Gould began her blogging career as one half of The Universal Review before starting her own blog, Emily Magazine,[4] and writing for Gawker on a freelance basis. Before joining the Gawker staff, Gould was an associate editor at Disney's Hyperion imprint.[5] Gould's work for Gawker eventually attracted media attention from several publications including The New York Times, as well as significant controversy.[6] [7] [8] [9] She left Gawker in November 2007.[10]

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.[11] She is also the author of a collection of essays, And the Heart Says Whatever, published by Free Press in May 2010.[12] 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?" 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.[1] [17] [18]

On May 4, 2007, Gould reacted to the interview in an op-ed she wrote for The New York Times.[19] 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.[20] In a March 2020 article, Gould recounts the incident and discusses the concept of shame in relation to it.[21]

Lena Dunham feud

Gould has also attracted criticism and controversy for her public feud with the actor and writer Lena Dunham.[22] [23] 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.[23] [24] Girls showrunner Jennifer Konner later posted several negative tweets in response to Gould's article in The New York Times.[25] [26] 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.[22] [27]

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.[28] 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.[29]

Personal life

Gould is from a Jewish family,[30] and has been married to the novelist Keith Gessen since October 2014.[31] They live in Brooklyn, New York.[5] In 2022, she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder.[32] She has celiac disease.

Works

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Sorkin Recreated This 2007 Fight Between Kimmel and Gawker on The Newsroom. www.mediaite.com. 9 December 2014 . 2016-04-23.
  2. News: Overstepping the bounds: how blogger Emily Gould has been oversharing. Hicklin. Aaron. 2014-12-14. The Guardian. en-GB. 0261-3077. 2016-04-23.
  3. You've Got (Hate) Mail. Jim. Windolf. Vanity Fair. 30 April 2009 . 16 April 2019.
  4. News: La Ferla . Ruth . Hitting the refresh button . 19 July 2019 . Chicago Tribune . 1 July 2014 . Chicago, Illinois . 1A 3–5.
  5. Web site: Friendship: A Novel - Emily Gould - Author Biography - LitLovers. Lundquist. Molly. www.litlovers.com. 2016-04-23.
  6. News: Emily Gould - Exposed - Blog-Post Confidential - Gawker. Gould. Emily. 2008-05-25. The New York Times. 0362-4331. 2016-04-23.
  7. Web site: Emily Gould Introduces Oversharing To New York Times Magazine . Denton . Nick . Gawker . en-US . 2016-04-23 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160417084224/http://gawker.com/5009993/emily-gould-introduces-oversharing-to-new-york-times-magazine . 2016-04-17 .
  8. Web site: To overshare: the long and gendered history of TMI. Sykes. Rachel. The Conversation. 24 July 2015 . 2016-04-23.
  9. Web site: She's over oversharing: Emily Gould, blogger and memoirist, turns to fiction. NY Daily News. 2016-04-23.
  10. News: New York Stories: Emily Gould, 'And the Heart Says Whatever'. The Washington Post. 2010-05-24. 2016-02-09. 0190-8286. en-US. Hadadi . Roxana.
  11. Web site: Gould, Emily & Jaffery, Zareen. Hex education.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review) . https://web.archive.org/web/20150924145818/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-184798910.html . dead . 2015-09-24 . Kliatt . Amanda MacGregor . September 2008 . August 11, 2015.
  12. Web site: And the Heart Says Whatever . Publishers Weekly . May 2010 . August 11, 2015.
  13. Kakutani, Michiko (June 30, 2014). "A Lucy and Ethel for an Age After Blogs". The New York Times.
  14. Web site: 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. 2016-04-23.
  15. Web site: Falling Into Debt After a $200,000 Book Advance — The Billfold. Billfold. The. Medium. 2016-04-23.
  16. Web site: Claire Kirch. Coffee House Launches First Imprint with Emily Books. PublishersWeekly.com. 2017-11-30. 2015-03-04.
  17. Web site: A Terrible Episode With Worse Timing: The Newsroom Tackles Campus Rape. Shepherd. Julianne Escobedo. Jezebel. 8 December 2014 . en-US. 2016-04-23.
  18. Web site: What Aaron Sorkin, Jon Stewart, and Tina Fey Learned From Their Internet Critics. Doyle. Sady. The Atlantic. 2 March 2011 . en-US. 2016-04-23.
  19. Web site: Emily . Gould . Coordinates of the Rich and Famous. The New York Times. May 4, 2007 . 2008-05-26.
  20. Web site: Emily . Gould . Exposed . The New York Times Magazine. May 25, 2008 . 2008-05-26.
  21. Web site: Gould . Emily . Replaying My Shame . The Cut . 26 February 2020 . New York Media . 6 March 2020.
  22. Web site: Lena Dunham's feud with author Emily Gould. ca.celebrity.yahoo.com. 9 July 2014 . 2016-04-23.
  23. Web site: How Emily Gould Published a Novel, Lost Her Job, and Provoked Lena Dunham. In 1 Week.. The Cut. 30 June 2014 . 2016-04-23.
  24. Web site: Emily Gould, Gawker's Original Oversharer, Hits Refresh. 2014-06-16. ELLE. 2016-04-23.
  25. Web site: Girls EP Jenni Konner on 'Horrible' Women and That Wig Scene from How to Get Away With Murder. Vulture. 25 October 2014 . 2016-04-23.
  26. Web site: Jenni Konner on Twitter. Twitter. 2016-04-23.
  27. Web site: Webs They Weave: David Shapiro x Emily Gould. Interview Magazine. 2 July 2014 . 2016-04-23.
  28. Web site: Emily Gould Talks 'Friendship,' Lena Dunham Spat. 2014-07-21. The Huffington Post. 2016-04-23.
  29. Web site: The right's Lena Dunham nonsense just won't stop. Gould. Emily. Salon. 4 November 2014 . 2016-04-23.
  30. Web site: Deconstructing Deborah . Guilt & Pleasure . Emily Gould . 2007 . "And when my mom, a convert whose religious enthusiasm continually perplexes my mostly secular Jewish family" . June 11, 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160515115637/http://www.guiltandpleasure.com/index.php?site=rebootgp&page=gp_article&id=31 . May 15, 2016 . dead .
  31. News: Overstepping the bounds: how blogger Emily Gould has been oversharing. The Guardian. 2014-12-14. 2016-02-09. 0261-3077. en-GB. Aaron. Hicklin.
  32. https://www.thecut.com/article/marriage-divorce-should-i-leave-my-husband-emily-gould.html "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"
  33. News: Cline . Rob . Book Review. Oversharing is theme - or whatever. . 19 July 2019 . The Gazette . 22 August 2010 . Cedar Rapids, Iowa . 2L.
  34. News: Reynolds . Susan Salter . Book Review. Discoveries. And The Heart Says Whatever . 19 July 2019 . The Los Angeles Times . 2 May 2010 . Los Angeles, California . E15.
  35. News: Heller . Karen . Book review. A novel of sorts: It's more memoir with a little plot . 19 July 2019 . The Philadelphia Inquirer . 13 July 2014 . Philadelphia, Pennsylvania . H1, H4.

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