Emily Gould

Emily Gould

Gould at the 2009 Brooklyn Book Festival
Born (1981-10-13) October 13, 1981
Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
Occupation Writer, editor, blogger
Nationality American
Genre Fiction, non-fiction

Emily Gould (born October 13, 1981) is an American author, novelist and blogger who rose to prominence as an editor at Gawker.com.[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 previously attending Kenyon College.[4]

Career

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

Gould, with Zareen Jaffery, is the co-author 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.[1] Her semi-autobiographical novel, Friendship, was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2014).[12]

Emily Books

Gould is currently the co-owner, with fellow writer Ruth Curry, of the independent e-bookstore Emily Books.[13][14]

Controversies

Gawker Stalker and Jimmy Kimmel

On April 6, 2007, Emily 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?"[15] During the interview, Kimmel accused Gould of irresponsible journalism resulting from Gould's popular blog and the Gawker Stalker feature which allows 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. Kimmel continued to claim a lack of veracity in Gawker.com's published stories, and the potential for libel it presents. Gould stated that the section of the website in question represented "citizen journalism" and went on to say that no one expected everything in the section to be true. The panel pointed out the contradiction of calling something "journalism" that wasn't expected to be true. The interview attracted media attention and resulted in an overwhelmingly negative response for Gould. It was later alluded to in the TV series The Newsroom in season 3, episode 5, written by Aaron Sorkin.[16][17][18]

On May 4, 2007, Gould reacted to the interview in an article she wrote for The New York Times.[19] An article she wrote about her experiences with Gawker.com was the New York Times Magazine cover story on May 25, 2008. In the article, she described how the negative response to her television appearance caused her to suffer panic attacks, which led her to seek therapy.[20]

Lena Dunham feud

Gould has also attracted criticism and controversy for her public feud with actress and writer Lena Dunham of Girls fame.[21][22] 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.[22][23] Girls show runner Jennifer Konner later posted several negative tweets in response to Gould's article in The New York Times[24][25] whereas Dunham unfollowed her 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.[21][26]

In a sit down interview with Huffington Post, Gould revealed that she is "very upset" about the public fallout with Dunham and that she remains "a big fan" of hers.[27] Gould later wrote an article for Salon defending Dunham against sexual abuse accusations stemming from accounts Dunham wrote about in her collection of essays Not That Kind of Girl.[28]

Personal life

Gould is from a Jewish family.[29] She has been married to novelist Keith Gessen since October 2014.[30] They live in Brooklyn, New York.[5]

Works

References

  1. 1 2 "And the Heart Says Whatever". Publisher's Weekly. May 2010. Retrieved August 11, 2015.
  2. ↑ "Sorkin Recreated This 2007 Fight Between Kimmel and Gawker on The Newsroom". www.mediaite.com. 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. ↑ http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2009/04/online-wars200904
  5. 1 2 Lundquist, Molly. "Friendship: A Novel - Emily Gould - Author Biography - LitLovers". www.litlovers.com. Retrieved 2016-04-23.
  6. ↑ Gould, Emily (2008-05-25). "Emily Gould - Exposed - Blog-Post Confidential - Gawker". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2016-04-23.
  7. ↑ Denton, Nick. "Emily Gould Introduces Oversharing To New York Times Magazine". Gawker. Retrieved 2016-04-23.
  8. ↑ Sykes, Rachel. "To overshare: the long and gendered history of TMI". The Conversation. Retrieved 2016-04-23.
  9. ↑ "She's over oversharing: Emily Gould, blogger and memoirist, turns to fiction". NY Daily News. Retrieved 2016-04-23.
  10. ↑ express (2010-05-24). "New York Stories: Emily Gould, 'And the Heart Says Whatever'". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2016-02-09.
  11. ↑ Amanda MacGregor (September 2008). "Gould, Emily & Jaffery, Zareen. Hex education.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)". Kliatt. Retrieved August 11, 2015.
  12. ↑ Kakutani, Michiko (June 30, 2014). "A Lucy and Ethel for an Age After Blogs". The New York Times.
  13. ↑ "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.
  14. ↑ Billfold, The. "Falling Into Debt After a $200,000 Book Advance — The Billfold". Medium. Retrieved 2016-04-23.
  15. ↑ Kimmel Takes On Gawker Stalker on YouTube
  16. ↑ "Sorkin Recreated This 2007 Fight Between Kimmel and Gawker on The Newsroom". www.mediaite.com. Retrieved 2016-04-23.
  17. ↑ Shepherd, Julianne Escobedo. "A Terrible Episode With Worse Timing: The Newsroom Tackles Campus Rape". Jezebel. Retrieved 2016-04-23.
  18. ↑ Doyle, Sady. "What Aaron Sorkin, Jon Stewart, and Tina Fey Learned From Their Internet Critics". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2016-04-23.
  19. ↑ Gould, Emily (May 4, 2007). "Coordinates of the Rich and Famous". The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-05-26.
  20. ↑ Gould, Emily (May 25, 2008). "Exposed". The New York Times Magazine. Retrieved 2008-05-26.
  21. 1 2 "Lena Dunham's feud with author Emily Gould". ca.celebrity.yahoo.com. Retrieved 2016-04-23.
  22. 1 2 "How Emily Gould Published a Novel, Lost Her Job, and Provoked Lena Dunham. In 1 Week.". The Cut. Retrieved 2016-04-23.
  23. ↑ "Emily Gould, Gawker's Original Oversharer, Hits Refresh". ELLE. 2014-06-16. Retrieved 2016-04-23.
  24. ↑ "Girls EP Jenni Konner on 'Horrible' Women and That Wig Scene from How to Get Away With Murder". Vulture. Retrieved 2016-04-23.
  25. ↑ "Jenni Konner on Twitter". Twitter. Retrieved 2016-04-23.
  26. ↑ "Webs They Weave: David Shapiro x Emily Gould". Interview Magazine. Retrieved 2016-04-23.
  27. ↑ "Emily Gould Talks 'Friendship,' Lena Dunham Spat". The Huffington Post. 2014-07-21. Retrieved 2016-04-23.
  28. ↑ Gould, Emily. "The right's Lena Dunham nonsense just won't stop". Salon. Retrieved 2016-04-23.
  29. ↑ Emily Gould (2007). "Deconstructing Deborah". Guilt & Pleasure. Retrieved June 11, 2016. And when my mom, a convert whose religious enthusiasm continually perplexes my mostly secular Jewish family
  30. ↑ Hicklin, Aaron (2014-12-14). "Overstepping the bounds: how blogger Emily Gould has been oversharing". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2016-02-09.
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