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posted by July 2 at 11:00 AM
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Sleep, my bloggy little angel, sleep and dream. When you awaken, you shall be rich!
Slunch, which is quoting from Publisher’s Lunch, says that former Gawker editor and recent New York Times Magazine cover story whiner Emily Gould has sold her memoir, titled And the Heart Says…”Whatever”, to Free Press. Estimates for the book deal range from $250,000 to 1 meeellion dollars.
The press release says that ATHS…”W” will be:
“an honest, searching and wry set of recollections that together weave a picture of what it’s like to be a young person in New York City in the early 2000s”
Can’t wait to review this one!
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who fuckin cares. if i never hear about this vapid bitch again it'll be too soon.
How the hell will you be able to read it? The best day of my life will be when someone runs up and punches her in the stomach.
There was a gawker post about this that had a great quote:
"'I assume it's 400 pages of the word me in different fonts,' says one publishing industry spy. "
Sounds about right.
The best I can say for Emily Gould is, at least she's not a fabricator like that other individual who made a name in the NY Times, Jayson Blair.
CLARIFICATION: If the above comment sounds in any way like a compliment, even a backhanded one, it was not intended to.
whining all the way to the bank
Ugh. No difference between her and Paris Hilton, merely different venues.
So are Paul Constant and Charles Mudede now trading SLOG places with the gratuitous babe JPGs?
I actually am looking forward to it, no sarcasm intended. She may be self-involved, but I think she's an entertaining writer.
Besides, what the hell kind of memoir isn't "the word me in different fonts"? It's a MEMOIR for god's sake...they are supposed to be about you.
A Fan's Notes by Frederick Exley is one of the best American memoirs, and it's about the most self-involved, awful person ever.
As long as it's well-written and honest...
Who the fuck is this?
old bloggers never die, they just...um...spend the rest of their careers trying desperately to get back into the "dead tree" paper media...
I hope that acquisitions editor gets shit-canned.
Hope it works out better than Ana Marie Cox' book. Eep.
She's actually pretty funny and smart a lot of the time.
Blogger books usually suck. Maybe this one will be different.
It should be illegal for people under 30 to write their memoirs.
I'm quite pleased with myself right now as I have no idea who this person is. For her sake, however, I hope she understands how advances work.
Well, I think we can all agree that she's no Martha Gellhorn.
Ugh. If I wanted to know what it was like to be a young person in New York City in the early 2000s, I'd move there.
I've never heard of her before, but from the little I read through your link, I would say it's writers like her who give me hope I can someday make it in this overfilled writers world. How boring and contrite her article is...and on the NYT site. Makes me frown a little.
Oops, not contrite--I mean lame.
Paul, why oh why do you pop the bubble in which I encapsulated you? Your love of Sloane was hard to swallow, especially when you compared her to Dorothy Parker. But, now, this. Who will you compare Emily to? I shudder to imagine. I must go soak my misery in booze now.
Seth @ 8, I think you're on to something there.
From now on, I'll pronounce the word "ME-moir."
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