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  • the 90s

    I Hate Your 90s: N+1 Discussion Panel Ruins My Favorite Decade

    Last night, n+1 hosted a discussion panel at NYC's The New Museum entitled "The 90s vs. The 90s." You can guess how this went: I no longer love the 90s. Also, Emily Gould was there. More »
    05/16/09
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    By Foster Kamer

    Comment by ContactAllergy: Fine, I'll play the race card. That is the whitest list of pop-cultural touchstones. No Tupac/Biggie? No OJ... 17 Responses | Other threads

  • feuds

    The Writer Nick Denton Couldn't Let Go (And Then Secretly Smeared)

    There are some bloggers Gawker Media overlord Nick Denton simply can't stand to lose. Some can be drawn back into the fold with generous counteroffers. Some cannot. Emily Gould could not. And she paid. More »
    04/30/09
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    By Ryan Tate

    Comment by rudolphdude: Can somebody inform me about the general state of the commenters here? I have been watching from the sidelines... 27 Responses | Other threads

  • alum report

    Blogs People Who Once Worked at Gawker Launch

    Gawker emeriti Alex Balk and Choire Sicha have launched their blog, The Awl ("a pointed tool for marking surfaces or piercing small holes"), which explains where I sit and features Emily Gould's advice. Welcome back. More »
    04/20/09
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    By Gabriel Snyder

    Comment by MisterHippity: Choire, Balk ... and a post by Emily too? It's like 2007 all over again — but without the asshole president! 5 Responses | Other threads

  • fameballs

    Seriously, Why Even Bothering Profiling Julia Allison?

    It's funny and meta to watch Julia Allison get profiled. Since she's already done all the work for us in real time—chronicling her thoughts and moods and outfits on her blog—a profile seems beside the point and out of date by the time it goes to print—we've already seen those outfits and photos, and we already know what events she's been to. Journalists are usually left baffled upon their first introduction to the JA force of nature—when we've been collectively getting her IMs for years! Australia is just now catching on to this Internet fameball/oversharing thing, putting Allison on the cover of a magazine—and including her close personal friend, and also our former editor, Emily Gould. (At this point, Em seems like she wants to erase the Internet and spend a month in a sensory-deprivation chamber.) The profile is very similar to Allison's Wired cover story, except for perhaps the journalist's outright dislike for her subjects. More »
    11/21/08
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    By Sheila

    Comment by narnio: THIS IS FUCKING RETARDED 17 Responses | Other threads

  • ask gawker

    Breaking Blogger Love News

    A reader asks, "Emily Gould and Keith Gessen—are they back together?" Emily Gould is a former editor of Gawker who wrote a cover story for The New York Times Magazine about working at Gawker and dating a different Gawker editor who wrote a Page Six Magazine story about dating her. Then she started dating Keith Gessen, whom she'd written about, somewhat critically, on Gawker. Gessen is a novelist who co-founded a literary journal called n+1 and wrote a novel about being a dude named Keith who went to Harvard, like Keith Gessen. The journal and the novel are the Most Important Journal and Novel of Our Time, respectively. They dated, and then they broke up, and then Keith went to Russia, and we stopped writing about both of them, mostly. But apparently you, the readers, demand to know what's up! Here is THE SCOOP: More »
    11/03/08
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    By Pareene

    Comment by La Cieca: The only way this thread is going to be any fun is if people start writing limericks based on the... 8 Responses | Other threads

  • emily gould

    Emily Gould Doppelgänger Featured In TV Show

    It stands to reason that a show about frazzled females in New York media might include a cameo by Emily Gould, the former Gawker editor now working on her six-figure "book of autobiographical stories" about being a frazzled female in new New York media. Via certain Observer staff Gould is just a degree or two of separation away from Lipstick Jungle creator Candace Bushnell. But after an email tip and way too much (20 minutes!) research, we've determined that those tattoos on the Lipstick extra's arms (above) just don't match up with Gould's own body art. So you (and we) should probably move on to thinking about more important things, like the implosion of Western capitalism. Or, you know, scrutinize this Gould-aping extra some more in the clip after the jump. More »
    09/19/08
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    By Ryan Tate

    Comment by Richard Lawson: It's not her, but it's pretty damn close. Hi fake Emily! 1 Responses | Other threads

  • Kill Your Blog

    Oversharing is over — save it for your book deal

    Former blog queen Emily Gould suggests the rest of us delete, unfollow, cancel, and block ourselves from the Web. This is notable chiefly because Gould's last big appearance in print was an excessively detailed confessional of her online misadventures for the New York Times Magazine. The social media age is complicated, she complains in a writeup of Clay Shirky's Here Comes Everybody for MIT's Tech Review. Someone stop us before we blog again! More »
    08/20/08
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    By Melissa Gira Grant

    Comment by Shadowlayer: So because her popularity peaked, nobody should use the same method she did? ¬_¬ more » | Other threads

  • emily gould

    Emily Gould: "Stop Blogging"

    Former Gawker editor Emily Gould has a new article in MIT's Technology Review asking everyone to try turning off the internet (basically) and maybe keep it off until their lives are profoundly altered. Her piece suggests, as an experiment, that the reader "cease to log in to your instant messenger for a week... Delete your profile from Facebook and stop blogging. Stop reading blogs. Stop attending social events you find out about online." (That would definitely alter my life in a profound way!) More »
    08/20/08
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    By Ryan Tate

    Comment by shostakobitch: ok i'm done with the internet today. but now what the fuck am i supposed to do at my... more » | Other threads

  • microcelebrity

    Rex Sorgatz's Posse

    Spiky-haired meme-promoter Rex Sorgatz of Fimoculous has established himself as the media's favorite expert on microcelebrity. So he ought to know better. More »
    08/12/08
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    By Nick Denton

    Comment by theidlesthand: I've watched Rex cry in the closet. In fairness though, it was his going away party and he was drunkenly... more » | Other threads

  • sarah silverman

    Defamer Matchmaking: Who Will Sarah Silverman And Jimmy Kimmel Be F*cking Next?

    Whenever a long-standing couple like Sarah Silverman and Jimmy Kimmel hit the skids, we feel the need to play Emma and set the lovelorn kids up with someone new ASAP. And since we were the ones who debunked the news that Jimmy had already rebounded with one of his writers, we feel like we should continue our tradition of suggesting a few paramours for the pair of funny people. See our suggestions after the jump. More »
    07/21/08
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    By Molly Friedman
  • emily gould

    "Unnatural... weird... a losing battle."

    07/09/08
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  • microfeuds

    Emily Gould Handles Her Own PR, Calls Out Everyone

    We will begin by thanking Emily Gould—former Gawker editor, recent NYT Magazine cover story, and recently-sold book-writer—for providing us with content on a slow news day before a holiday weekend. She's chosen the perfect time to publish a long screed on her blog, titled "How Your Emily Gould Gossip Sausage Gets Made." Whoa! Everyone gets called out. We're all crazy from the heat this week! More »
    07/03/08
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    By Sheila

    Comment by wolfmechanic: LOLGould! What a whiny cunt. I don't pity you, Gould. I just LOL at you. more » | Other threads

  • rex sorgatz

    Oversharing Is Sometimes Okay, Says Oversharer

    Goaded by a commenter, writer Rex Sorgatz wrote a passionate defense of those who share intimate details of their lives online. The media blogger (and recent author of a piece on microfame for New York) had linked to his anonymous Tumblr blog, which documented conversations Rex had about New York and the hookup scene. (The blog was outed even more quickly than Rex expected.) Rex says his pillow-talk conversations weren't oversharing, and fuck you for accusing him of that. So what's his defense, and is there anything still too intimate to blog? More »
    07/03/08
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    By Nick Douglas

    Comment by RachelSklar: I agree, Team Rex. more » | Other threads

  • books

    Emily Gould's Memoirs Sold for "Low Six Figures"

    The former Gawker editor, NYT Magazine covergirl, and admitted oversharer has sold her memoir, And the Heart Says... Whatever (organized by her tattoos!), for something in the "low six figures." Publishers Weekly reports it'll "weave a picture of what it’s like to be a young person in New York City in the early 2000s through a series of 'honest, searching and wry' recollections." Galleycat thinks the figure was something around $350,000—a very high price, yet much more realistic than the earlier-rumored $1 mil. Bought by Free Press in a pre-empt, it'll be out around 2010. (There will be new Gawker editors to cover the inevitable leaked excerpts by that time.)
    07/02/08
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    By Sheila

    Comment by ✈The Late Pufflehuff✈: @quinticire: young, female, not obese more » | Other threads

  • rumormonger

    Emily Gould's Memoirs

    Word is that the 26-year-old former Gawker editor and New York Times Magazine covergirl has sold the rights to And The Heart Says...Whatever—for a stupendous $1m. The auction concluded on Friday morning. Anyone know which publisher shelled out such an extraordinary sum?
    06/30/08
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    By Nick Denton

    Comment by b4nt4: gould may not have received $1m but this dude sure did for his first novel [www.observer.com] apparently the key to the treasure... more » | Other threads

  • books

    Emily Gould's Book Proposal Unveiled

    OK, former Gawker editor Emily Gould's book proposal reveals that her story will be told through her tattoos—and organized in that way! "While nothing that has happened to me in and of itself has been that noteworthy: Lots of young people have lived in big cities, and have had an assortment of strange and ordinary jobs... there are some truths about doing these things and about writing about them online that haven't yet been expressed." Daily Intel nabbed the proposal and has a small excerpt.
    06/26/08
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    By Sheila

    Comment by ellagood: @RollsRoyceRevenge: perfection. perfection. hey, kudos to her for trying to cash out at the first opp she can. but, wow, shame on... more » | Other threads

  • books

    Emily Gould's Highly-Guarded Book Proposal

    Everyone wants to know what's in her proposed memoir nonfiction book, And the Heart Says... Whatever, but the former blogger for this website is wisely having the proposal messengered around town to prevent leaks. (Nick Denton, however, is having spy-cam equipment installed outside her apartment.) Fishbowl has gleaned that "the word on the street is that whatever Gould has on submission goes beyond the [NY Times Magazine] article, and will focus more on her growing up and less on her time at Gawker." [Fishbowl]
    06/26/08
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    By Sheila

    Comment by The Default Attorney: @zibby: Wow, that would be pure evil. Really really amazingly horrible good evil. P.S. Emily is hot and I... more » | Other threads

  • request for information

    The Memoirs Of Emily Gould, 26

    Yep, the inevitable: agency Trident is hawking a book proposal by the self-revealing former Gawker writer and controversial New York Times Magazine covergirl. The working title is And The Heart Says... Whatever; "I assume it's 400 pages of the word me in different fonts," says one publishing industry spy. Dewy Gould's latest career move isn't that surprising: Ana Marie Cox went out to publishers the week after the Wonkette editor appeared on the front cover of the same Sunday supplement. Gould's outline is being messengered rather than emailed to prevent a leak to a certain website. But I'm sure someone can sneak at least a few pages to the scanner. Email us.
    06/24/08
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    By Nick Denton

    Comment by unutterable: I know I'm coming into this discussion a day late (I took the week off from work, so my motivation... more » | Other threads

  • disclosures

    Print Cycle Too Slow for Literary Dating Whirl

    It's lucky for Russia! magazine that former Gawker and new NYT Magazine covergirl Emily Gould has already split up with Russian-born novelist and n+1 editor Keith Gessen. Otherwise, they'd be in trouble! Out now in their new issue is Gould's profile of Russian-American writers—including Gessen. More »
    06/05/08
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    By Sheila

    Comment by BScrivner: Thanks god they didn't breed--his mouth and her lips would equal one scary little baby-face. more » | Other threads

  • fameballs

    Emily Gould Broke Some Hearts Back in Middle School

    Emily Gould, Day 9. The former Gawker editor turned New York Times Magazine covergirl (the article mentioned breakups and blogs) has childhood frenemies coming out of the woodwork! Second Skin interrupts their film's blog to let us know about a younger Emily, who was, not surprisingly, quite the little firecracker in middle school. Her antics occasionally resulted in backlash such as "An entire bottle of Sprite. Right on her head." More »
    05/29/08
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    By Sheila

    Comment by AnnaFreud: Emily Gould may have broken some hearts as a youth, but it's too bad she never learned to write. I... more » | Other threads

  • crossovers

    Emily Gould "Shocked" By Her Cover Photo

    It's Day 8 of the Emily Gould saga, the former Gawker editor whose first-person blogging narrative that landed the cover of the New York Times Magazine. Our coverage of her is nothing personal, just business—she's officially a "person of interest"! Today's installment: some people, including Gould herself, seem to be offended by the article's accompanying photos, shot by fine art photographer Elinor Carucci. They're "intimate," like the text, but "intimate" also reads as "sexy," and God knows we can't have that. (Gould called them "vaguely cheesecakey" in a NYT Q&A.) Although More »
    05/28/08
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    By Sheila

    Comment by emilygouldh8tr: Bell County, why shouldn't I be here? Ahh, you're not a twinkie lover, are you? more » | Other threads

  • breakups

    Love Still Hurts, Even When Not Blogged

    The gossip has been coursing into our emails in various forms and tones for several weeks now: former Gawker editor (and newly minted NYT Mag essaysist) Emily Gould and n+1 editor and newly minted novelist Keith Gessen are no longer boyfriend-girlfriend. OK? We'll spare you the overlong analysis of possible root causes. So all you ladies who have been whispering about Keith's hotness from the back of his readings (I was there, I heard you!) can now say it to his face. Gessen's take on the situation? It was casually buried in his article in The Stranger last week: More »
    05/27/08
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    By Sheila

    Comment by if_i_only_had_a_heart: @Niko Bellic: in paris, dancers and other performers were part of the demimonde, pace colette: not quite artists, not quite... more » | Other threads

  • Shut Up, Commenters!

    Why The Times Stopped Taking Your Comments On Emily Gould

    When the Times shut down comments on Emily Gould's still-physically-unpublished magazine cover story Friday, we — OK, I — speculated the newspaper "might be having second thoughts" about the value of generating online buzz, "barring some kind of technical concern." Well, there doesn't appear to have been any technical concern, but, based on information from one Times source, it sounds more likely comments were closed to shift staff to newer stories. More »
    05/27/08
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    By Ryan Tate

    Comment by emilygouldh8tr: c u next tuesday (or thrusday) more » | Other threads

  • Shut Up, Commenters!

    Times Gives Hill the Emily Gould Treatment

    So the commenters over at The New York Times' editorial about Sen. Hillary Clinton's assassination gaffe are all, "You suck, Hillary!" And after 686 such comments, the Gray Lady has pulled the plug. You can no longer express your opinion of the Senator there, just like you can no longer jump on the goonish hate pile that Emily Gould was treated to at that venerable news site. So congratulations, "Diplomatic," your frenzied "NOT ready on DAY ONE!!" will forever be the final word. Some other choice words after the jump. More »
    05/25/08
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    By ian spiegelman

    Comment by raincoaster: @ian spiegelman: You're not remembering the real Spy; you're just looking at it through MAD-coloured glasses. It really did break... more » | Other threads

  • The Emily Chronicles

    The Last Word On That Emily Gould Story?

    It's a long holiday weekend, so perhaps by Tuesday there'll be nothing left to say about former Gawker editor Emily Gould's extensive New York Times Magazine cover story about sleeping with people and blogging about it and having panic attacks on bathroom floors? No? Well, in any case, The Huffington Post's Rachel Sklar, a Canadian, provides a tasty summary of the essay and the ensuing media cluster-fuck. "This was an extended blog post, an overlong 'Modern Love' essay, 7,937 words that did not venture beyond the author's own experience; for some perspective, the NYT's investigative expose on the Pentagon's purported ties to on-air military analysts had 7,486). And for what?" More »
    05/24/08
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    By ian spiegelman

    Comment by metoometoo: I liked the article, but then I always prefer entertaining articles rather than important newsy ones, which is why I... more » | Other threads

  • crossovers

    The Personal Narrative, Photographed

    For former Gawker blogger Emily Gould's raw "Blog-Post Confidential" essay in the upcoming New York Times Magazine, she was photographed by Elinor Carucci, who specializes in "portraits of everyday female vulnerability." The photo on the left is Emily Gould by Carucci, the one on the right is Carucci, from her Closer series. Shoot the Blog remarks that Carucci, admirably, is able to "delivers editorial imagery that is barely distinguishable from her own [fine art] work." That's the photographer equivalent of making it big writing personal narratives! (Click to enlarge.)
    05/23/08
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    By Sheila

    Comment by MadamButterfloozy: Emily You should've listened to Jessica's wise advice about not reading the comments. For me, your mistake was not 'oversharing', it... more » | Other threads

  • bloglash

    Comments Closed On Emily Gould's Times Piece

    Times editors are apparently tired of people saying mean things about Emily Gould and about their own decision to publish her meditation on blogging, because they've shut down the comments section attached to Gould's magazine piece. Some 727 responses flooded in before the shutdown, even though the article won't be physically published until the Sunday issue. Many called the former Gawker editor narcissistic, self-indulgent and a bad writer and said her story was a waste of space; there were supporters, including people who praised Gould for having moved on from vicious, inconsequential Gawker and for pushing them to reexamine their own online personas. Whatever was said, the decision to shut down comments is bizarre, because just yesterday Times Magazine editor Gerry Marzorati told FishbowlNY the story was worthy of his cover precisely because of the discussion it would spark: More »
    05/23/08
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    By Ryan Tate

    Comment by PinkPundit: @Mike_Jahn:Yeah, analysis has something to do with it. There was also all that confessional poetry in the 1970s, and the... more » | Other threads

  • the internets

    We Are All Emilys

    Occasionally, on this very website, enlightening debate breaks out. In between the clusterfucks and the bodysnarking, talk about blogging, the internet, the effect of technology on relationships, and the Way We Live Now occurs. In that case, Emily Gould's just-online article in next Sunday's New York Times Magazine has done what it set out to do. We found it fitting to highlight a conversation between commenters Cassandra and A Dismal Science. Are we all Emily? Is nobody Emily? Should we stone her to death, as is the Internet's custom? "There is not one Emily. There are millions of Emilys." Read on... More »
    05/22/08
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    By Sheila

    Comment by Miss Pontificating: No, we are not all Emilys but there are a lot of her clones. more » | Other threads

  • bloggery

    Emily Gould Exposed

    That New York Times Magazine cover story on the perils of online self-exposure is up online—and itself exposed to a still wider audience of gawkers. Oops, as author Emily Gould might say. There isn't much that hasn't already been discussed on this site or on the newspaper's own discussion board. But there's an adorable new photo. If you can't be bothered to read the text—which has already been blogged, commented and rehashed to the point of absurdity—Daily Intel's statisticians have quantified the narcissism in an easy-to-digest table.
    05/22/08
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    By Nick Denton

    Comment by SarjanaGriffin: @heartbreakturnip: Gosh stuckingoshen, do you mean people should blog about their intimate lives only when something serious and life-transforming has happened to them?... more » | Other threads

  • the way we live now

    Emily Gould on Julia Allison (on Julia Allison): "Attention Is My Drug"

    Hey, bloggers! The countdown to the three-day weekend clusterfuck of examining and reexamining former Gawker editor Emily Gould's forthcoming New York Times Magazine piece may be cut short! Because The Observer has a copy, and it'll probably be online tomorrow. You are forewarned: there is a photo of a blogger at a laptop, blogging. It's just Emily's hands, though. According to Matt Haber, the piece is "heavily diaristic." Do you want to read about Julia Allison? Sure you do. More »
    05/21/08
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    By Pareene

    Comment by windowface: julia allison rides in private jets with demetri martin, then takes pictures and blogs about it. and she reveals demetri... more » | Other threads

  • this thing looks like that thing

    Blog Generation Is Special, Just Like Every Other Generation

    Matt Haber at the Observer points out that Emily Gould isn't the first Times magazine poster child for a generation shaped by technology. Joyce Maynard played the same role in 1972 as an 18-year-old whose cohorts were "the first to take technology for granted." The technology in question was television, which unlike the internet did not make it easier to, say, tell a cute boy how much you like putting things into your mouth or otherwise flirt. But Maynard's story still raised Troubling Questions about young people's prospects amid the onslaught of modernity, as Gould's apparently will: More »
    05/21/08
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    By Ryan Tate

    Comment by lizzybennett: Joyce maynard hasn't stopped talking about this event in her life. Will Emily Gould be droning on about this in2034?I... more » | Other threads

  • crossovers

    Emily Gould Introduces Oversharing To New York Times Magazine

    "I’m going to try to never write about you,” I whispered to the boy whose shoulder my head was on two nights ago. Oops. Emily Gould has made a writing career of her personal life and built a personal life around her writing career, exposing her relationships on a personal site and on Gawker when she was a writer on this site. Now, in a cover story for this coming weekend's New York Times Magazine, she does an accounting. "What I gained—and lost—by revealing my intimate life on the web," goes the cover line—over a sultry photograph of the author sprawled across a bed, a laptop power cord suggestively looping towards her tattooed arm. More »
    05/20/08
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    By Nick Denton

    Comment by Kallyphornya: Okay, I'm an Internet content refugee who turned away out of necessity out of the dotcom crash. And it's interesting... more » | Other threads

  • sex wars

    Male Writers Having Trouble Getting it Up

    This week, everybody's wondering why boys (yes, they call them boys) can't write anymore! In the Observer, Choire Sicha argues that with the current crop of women writers looming over them—Janet Malcolm, Ursula Le Guin, Didion, Dunn—dude writers simply can't concentrate, much less perform. " A little penis, it turns out, can be a dangerous thing," he writes. "But it's not crazy at all to feel bad for the young male writers of our time, despite all they have done to us with their books." Or what they haven't done to us with them! Debut novelist and n+1 editor Keith Gessen's photo, tragically, illustrates this article. And now Emily Gould chimes in on Galleycat. (Disclosure? "Whatever. Google me.") More »
    05/14/08
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    By Sheila

    Comment by skahammer: @raincoaster: Ah, touche. more » | Other threads

  • publicity

    Sloane Crosley: She's Everywhere Keith Gessen Wants to Be

    Book publicist/author Sloane Crosley is so magically delicious that she even brightened the painful Sunday Styles feature on N+1 editor and Emily Gould-dater Keith Gessen in today's Times. "At the football game, he admitted to monitoring his novel’s Amazon.com sales obsessively. And he lamented the fact that more visitors to his novel’s Amazon page chose to buy Sloane Crosley’s essay collection, 'I Was Told There’d Be Cake,' than his book." But to get to that, I had to come face-to-face with one particularly offensive nugget. More »
    04/27/08
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    By ian spiegelman

    Comment by helenanapier: @ian spiegelman: Oh Ian, cheer up, at least your name isn't "Sloane." You don't sound like a law firm. Besides,... more » | Other threads

  • internet

    In Praise of Anonymity

    Anne Rice is not just an author, she's an Author. In the comments of a post from blogger Dawn Papuga's site about Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling's lawsuit over Harry Potter Lexicon creator Stephen Vander Ark's book project, she criticizes the manner of Papuga's assault on Rowling's lawsuit: "The rampant viciousness on the internet is hurtful to to me even when it’s not aimed at me," she writes. Rice joins a cacophony of voices attacking the tone of the Internet, which won't play by the rules of famous and important Authors. With the Internet-fighting team of Julia Allison and Emily Gould joining Rice's crusade to end being virtually criticized forever, we find it shocking that no one has stepped up to support Al Gore's greatest invention. Here's why they're wrong. More »
    04/22/08
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    By Alex Carnevale

    Comment by Trixie from Toronto: @winniecooper: Bingo. I tire of us being lectured to find something else to do by narcissists who can't find anything... more » | Other threads

  • emily gould

    If One Could Stop The Internet

    "Formerly anonymous blog commentors would have to say their piece out loud, face to face." [Emily Gould's fantasy, in the New York Observer]
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    By Nick Denton

    Comment by raincoaster: @karion: Grounds for execution? But...it's my FUCKING TRADEMARK! more » | Other threads

  • Literature?

    We Are All Just Wittle Babies

    "All the Sad, Young Literary Men has too many men, none of whom is particularly sad, literary or, for that matter, interesting." That's The L Magazine's Jonny Diamond on N+1 editor Keith Gessen's first novel. The interesting bit is how Gawker, you dear commenters, and the scribblers of Magical Brooklynism fit into the equation. "Gessen has rightly and eloquently lamented the impoverishment of intellectual discourse in 21st-century America, particularly in a New York literary scene that prefers whimsy to gravitas, adolescence to adulthood and typography to teleology." (Yeah, Gessen and his privileged band of bores are the answer. Okay, I'll stop.) "And if lit journal-cum-publishing house McSweeney’s has come to stand (albeit unfairly so) as shorthand for this particular style of whimsy-sotted, Brooklyn-born preciousness, then online media gossip Gawker has served as its natural enemy, employing snark and irony to interrupt the daydreams of thousands of Michel Gondrys and Miranda Julys." Sounds good. But it isn't! More »
    04/13/08
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    By ian spiegelman

    Comment by Hipp: @Hez: Without John Lennon, there'd be no other rock 'n roll to get. Except Buddy Holly. Nothing else counts, pre-Beatles.... more » | Other threads

  • relationships

    All the Available Literary Men

    Highbrow pink newspaper the New York Observer—home to Gawker employees past, and probably future—launched their fancy new book review section, "O.R.B." (guess what it stands for) with a review of Keith Gessen's book, a profile by Leon Neyfakh, and a Joshua David Stein review. Which means that nearly all the names on the front page of the section belong to people who have, at one time or another, dated former Gawker editor Emily Gould. There are only like ten people who write things in New York, you see. This is like a nightmare we used to have! Click to enlarge the section, with names helpfully circled by a stalky anonymous tipster.
    04/10/08
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    By Pareene

    Comment by YourGoldKeith: Oogling Rented Blowhorns more » | Other threads

  • mediabistro

    Exciting MediaBistro/Gawker Alum News!

    We're not the only ones with a fancy new office! MediaBistro is, we hear from sources close to the listings site and blog concern, moving up to 33rd and Park, which is on the Upper East Side or something, right? Should be a fun commute! FishbowlNY editor Neal Ungerleider won't have to make it, though, as his last day at the site is tomorrow. But! Former Gawker editor Emily Gould is now a contributing editor at MediaBistro publishing site GalleyCat! Busy, busy, busy.
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    By Pareene

    Comment by fortqueenmean: There is not enough money in the Internet World to entice me to take the rush-hour 6 train. more » | Other threads

  • books

    Keith Gessen Will Be Sad

    Okay, maybe it was wrong to imply that dating a blogger was useful for an ambitious novelist with a book to market. Literary hearthrob Keith Gessen, author of All the Sad Young Literary Men and editor of n+1 magazine, was to have featured prominently in an upcoming feature on Russian-American writers. But that was before editors at super-hip Russia! magazine discovered that the article's author, Gawker alumus Emily Gould, was romantically involved with her subject. Reports a spy: "One funny side effect of yesterday's item about the Gould-Gessen romance: RUSSIA! mag, where Gould has a big feature on "young Russian-American writers" in the next issue (closing this week), is furiously scrubbing the story of all mentions of Keith Gessen. Which were, of course, numerous, laudatory and unencumbered with disclaimers." After the jump, a passage from the draft. More »
    03/07/08
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    By Nick Denton

    Comment by rosaluxembourgeoise: @dweeb: Who's on first? more » | Other threads

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