Emily Gould
| Emily Gould | |
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Gould at the 2009 Brooklyn Book Festival
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| Born |
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. 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.
Gould graduated from Eugene Lang College after previously attending Kenyon College.
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. Gould's work on Gawker.com eventually attracted media attention from several publications including The New York Times, as well as significant controversy. She left Gawker.com in November 2007.
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. She is also the author of a collection of essays, And the Heart Says Whatever, published by Free Press in May 2010. Her semi-autobiographical novel, Friendship, was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2014).
Gould is currently the co-owner, with fellow writer Ruth Curry, of the independent e-bookstore Emily Books.
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?" 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.
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