Emily Gould reconsiders the likelihood of women’s first-person writing bringing about change.
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Replaying My Shame
In the past 13 years, Emily Gould has become an accomplished author and feminist book publisher. As she prepares for the launch of her latest novel, Perfect Tunes, she worries that to many people, she will only ever be what she was for less than a year, in 2007: an editor at now defunct media […]
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The Truth About Writing Fiction From Your Life
A conversation about writing novels that have roots in reality.
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Katja Blichfeld Gets What She Wants
A profile of Katja Blichfeld, the co-creator of HBO’s High Maintenance, in the wake of her coming out as a lesbian, and the amicable end of her marriage to Ben Sinclair — her collaborator on the show, and its star.
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An Unapologetic Plea for Your Help Funding More Personal Essays
Longreads’ Essays Editor on the importance of budgeting for personal narratives.
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My Life in Domestic Goddesses
A personal essay in which Emily Gould pays homage to the wide range of women food writers and cookbook authors who affected her own cooking, and her lifestyle aspirations, over the course of her adult life so far.
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Under Hubbard’s Eye
To scientologist Elisabeth Moss, The Handmaid’s Tale speaks to the importance of separation of church and state, rather than the dangers of religious extremism.
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Who Do You Want Elisabeth Moss to Be?
As the first season of the television adaptation of The Handmaid’s Tale wraps up, author Emily Gould profiles Elisabeth Moss, the show’s star and executive producer. Gould manages to draw Moss out out a bit on topics the actress is famous for being tight-lipped about, including the book and show’s feminist messages, and how her […]
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My Bad Parenting Advice Addiction
When her son was born, Emily Gould read 25 books about babies and sleep, but wound up only more confused.
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Publishing’s New Four-Letter Word
Publishing asks women — but not men — to be nice, as well as talented. Should we ask men to be more nice, or give women the leeway to be less so?