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1

who fuckin cares. if i never hear about this vapid bitch again it'll be too soon.

Posted by brett | July 2, 2008 11:23 AM
2

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.

Posted by Mr. Poe | July 2, 2008 11:24 AM
3

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.

Posted by davida | July 2, 2008 11:25 AM
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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.

Posted by cressona | July 2, 2008 11:28 AM
5

whining all the way to the bank

Posted by ams | July 2, 2008 11:30 AM
6

Ugh. No difference between her and Paris Hilton, merely different venues.

Posted by demo kid | July 2, 2008 11:34 AM
7

So are Paul Constant and Charles Mudede now trading SLOG places with the gratuitous babe JPGs?

Posted by Cookie W. Monster | July 2, 2008 11:37 AM
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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...


Posted by Seth | July 2, 2008 11:45 AM
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Who the fuck is this?

Posted by w7ngman | July 2, 2008 11:46 AM
10

old bloggers never die, they just...um...spend the rest of their careers trying desperately to get back into the "dead tree" paper media...

Posted by brett | July 2, 2008 11:52 AM
11

I hope that acquisitions editor gets shit-canned.

Posted by keshmeshi | July 2, 2008 11:56 AM
12

Hope it works out better than Ana Marie Cox' book. Eep.

Posted by kid icarus | July 2, 2008 12:00 PM
13

She's actually pretty funny and smart a lot of the time.

Blogger books usually suck. Maybe this one will be different.

Posted by Dawgson | July 2, 2008 12:24 PM
14

It should be illegal for people under 30 to write their memoirs.

Posted by Trevor | July 2, 2008 1:34 PM
15

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.

Posted by Dougsf | July 2, 2008 1:40 PM
16

Well, I think we can all agree that she's no Martha Gellhorn.

Posted by Ramdu | July 2, 2008 1:54 PM
17

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.

Posted by Greg | July 2, 2008 1:59 PM
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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.

Posted by an imaginary | July 2, 2008 2:50 PM
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Oops, not contrite--I mean lame.

Posted by an imaginary | July 2, 2008 2:52 PM
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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.

Posted by PopTart | July 2, 2008 3:47 PM
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Seth @ 8, I think you're on to something there.

From now on, I'll pronounce the word "ME-moir."

Posted by CP | July 2, 2008 5:27 PM

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