The Emily Gould Museum

The Bell Jar at 40  at the Poetry Foundation.  I had wanted to call this “Still Crazy After All These Years” but alas, no.  To be serious for a second this is one of my favorite things I’ve written and marks the first time I found research exciting.   Photo from Janet Malcolm’s The Silent Woman, online for New Yorker subscribers, to which I am heavily indebted.

The Bell Jar at 40  at the Poetry Foundation.  I had wanted to call this “Still Crazy After All These Years” but alas, no. 

To be serious for a second this is one of my favorite things I’ve written and marks the first time I found research exciting.   Photo from Janet Malcolm’s The Silent Woman, online for New Yorker subscribers, to which I am heavily indebted.

Favorite interviews: Liz Phair Jonathan Franzen I wish it had been a joint interview.  It’s fun to think of what these two cultural heroes of mine would have to say to each other. Maybe Liz hated Freedom but I like to imagine that she loved it.

Favorite interviews:

Liz Phair

Jonathan Franzen

I wish it had been a joint interview.  It’s fun to think of what these two cultural heroes of mine would have to say to each other. Maybe Liz hated Freedom but I like to imagine that she loved it.

Man oh man, people hated this Slate essay about blog culture, manufactured outrage, and sexist faux-feminism.  A few months later while promoting Bossypants Tina Fey told Terry Gross: “In the episode [of 30 Rock called “TGS Hates Women”], we have a fake website called Joanofsnark.com that the women at Jezebel.com immediately recognized that it was their website basically and it was … I don’t have the answer. But I find it interesting that Olivia [Munn, a correspondent on The Daily Show] gets people who go after her on some of these sites because she’s beautiful, and that’s part of it. I think if she were kind of an aggressive, heavier girl with a Le Tigre mustache posing in her underpants, people would be like, ‘That’s amazing. Good for you.’ But because she’s very beautiful, people are like, ‘You’re using that.’ It’s a mess. We can’t figure it out.” Which is basically all I was trying to say.

Man oh man, people hated this Slate essay about blog culture, manufactured outrage, and sexist faux-feminism.  A few months later while promoting Bossypants Tina Fey told Terry Gross:

“In the episode [of 30 Rock called “TGS Hates Women”], we have a fake website called Joanofsnark.com that the women at Jezebel.com immediately recognized that it was their website basically and it was … I don’t have the answer. But I find it interesting that Olivia [Munn, a correspondent on The Daily Show] gets people who go after her on some of these sites because she’s beautiful, and that’s part of it. I think if she were kind of an aggressive, heavier girl with a Le Tigre mustache posing in her underpants, people would be like, ‘That’s amazing. Good for you.’ But because she’s very beautiful, people are like, ‘You’re using that.’ It’s a mess. We can’t figure it out.”

Which is basically all I was trying to say.

For their own inscrutable reasons, 7,000 + people follow my food blog which is rarely about food.

For their own inscrutable reasons, 7,000 + people follow my food blog which is rarely about food.

My personal blog, Emily Magazine, has existed since October 2005, just exactly as long as the Internet itself!  Weird coincidence. 

My personal blog, Emily Magazine, has existed since October 2005, just exactly as long as the Internet itself!  Weird coincidence. 

Here are three things I wrote for The Economist’s More Intelligent Life magazine: A Fine Balance (on yoga, Poseur by Claire Dederer, Yoga Journal magazine and yoga culture in general), March 2010 What Are Women Fighting About? (on A Fortunate Age by Joanna Smith Rakoff and the titular question), October 2009 On Rings and Hand-wringing (on Committed by Elizabeth Gilbert, Marry Him! by Lori Gottlieb, and marriage in general), April 2010

Here are three things I wrote for The Economist’s More Intelligent Life magazine:

A Fine Balance (on yoga, Poseur by Claire Dederer, Yoga Journal magazine and yoga culture in general), March 2010

What Are Women Fighting About? (on A Fortunate Age by Joanna Smith Rakoff and the titular question), October 2009

On Rings and Hand-wringing (on Committed by Elizabeth Gilbert, Marry Him! by Lori Gottlieb, and marriage in general), April 2010