In seventh grade I was sent to the principal’s office for making posters and taping them up in the hallways of my school. The posters deplored sexism in some way; maybe there was some school policy t...
“Writing about the buddist here has been public display, of course, but it’s been a public display of trying to figure something out, I’m not sure what it is – something about desire, obviously, and ...
This is for the person who searched for “Why did Emily Gould delete Things I Ate That I Love”? I didn’t, I just changed its URL (stupidly, I think now) to http://emilygould.tumblr....
Lately because of Emily Books I’ve been trying to anatomize my own taste. It’s not that I have to figure out why I like the things I do but it would probably be helpful to understand my impulses as I...
The Art of Fielding is a great book and a popular book — an odd and miraculous-seeming combination! Chad Harbach is a great person and now, after years of hard work and no ego rewards, also a ...
I read JD Samson’s post about the crappiness of having to psychologically and practically reconcile her early financial success with her current financial struggles with cringey mixed feelings. It r...
I’m told that I mispronounced “rugelach” throughout this episode but otherwise I think this is a good one. Thanks as always to Val and Andrew and very special thanks to honorary ass...
After you watch Bryan Charles’ Cooking the Books you should spend some time poking around the new Blip show-page. It is nice there but it kind of has the eerie empty-building feel of a website ...
“Back in the early days of New Narrative,” writes Dodie Bellamy in her book of blog posts The Buddhist, “when we were all wanting to be in one another’s work, I complained to ...
is not an adjective that describes Cooking the Books — yet. I’m sure once they start having an Emmy category for Lo-Fi Internet Cooking Show we will be a shoo-in. It is however an adjec...
A great excerpt from this book is here …
Just a quick note that I will be in Chicago for the second time in my life on March 13, talking about blogging, literary fame, and the new play Sex with Strangers with author and blogger Claire Zulke...
The Patterns of Paper Monsters author Emma Rathbone came on Cooking the Books and you shouldn’t try this recipe at home. You should watch the episode and read the book, though.
We’ve been continuing to make episodes of Cooking the Books! This one features comedian Doogie Horner. You can subscribe to them in iTunes and see all the episodes here.
A lovely person gave me a gift certificate to my favorite bookstore, Word bookstore in Greenpoint, and I had absolutely nothing to do today (except work I didn’t want to do) so I went there to...
I was off the Internet for a couple days and then today I saw this in the subway. Can you read the small text? It says “You’re in the Arizona desert. You’re bitten by a diamondback...
“Are you going to write about this on your blog?” Bennett asked, then hesitated: “Huh, I’ve never asked you that before.” We were standing on the subway platform a fe...
Welcome to the Fall 2010 back to reality/school season. Here are some links to things I worked on over the summer and a brief summing-up of related enthusiasms, and also some descriptions of things ...
Dear Iowan readers of Emily Magazine, or people in neighboring areas who might be able to make it to Iowa City by tomorrow night if they got in the car right now: I am reading in Iowa City tomorrow n...
When I was a teenager I would do this thing with my dad, who is a musician, where I would play him whatever Helium or Superchunk or Tori Amos or Pavement song I was currently obsessed with, to see wh...
After I wrote this column about Facebook I found I had extra bonus thoughts so I decided to put at least a few of them here. When Gawker Media announced that all employees we were required to have Fa...
Cooking the Books — Episode 11 — Julie Klausner from The Awl on Vimeo.
Yesterday in Asheville I went to Unitarian Universalist church services. In situations like this I always find myself making a conscious effort to look around for something ridiculous because if I do...
I’m not really sure what to do with my Powell’s guest blogging gig. After a couple of false starts I decided to just treat it exactly like Emily Magazine, for better or worse.
Maybe you, Emily Magazine reader, are still on the fence about whether to actually purchase And The Heart Says Whatever (which is a paperback original that retails for $16, $10.88 plus shipping on Am...
photo via A group of three 11 or 12 year old boys were standing right behind me, so I eavesdropped on their conversation. I was sitting crosslegged on the floor about fifteen feet away from the cen...
Why, as marriage rates sharply decline, are we more obsessed with the institution than ever? Committed, Marry Him! and TLC’s crack-like horrorshow Say Yes To The Dress all made their way into...
Cooking the Books – Episode 8 – Kathryn Borel from The Awl on Vimeo.
Cooking the Books — Episode 7 — Sam Lipsyte and Ceridwen Morris from The Awl on Vimeo.
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