Emily Gould

Emily is the author of And The Heart Says Whatever, Friendship, and Perfect Tunes (now in paperback!). With Ruth Curry, she founded Emily Books, which sells and publishes books by women as an imprint of Coffee House Press. She is a Features Writer at New York Magazine.

Photo by Sylvie Rosokoff

Archive

Most Women in Publishing Don’t Have The Luxury of Being Unlikeable

Baking cookies is just part of playing the game.

Buzzfeed / January 6, 2017

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Christine Who Fed the Hungry

Emily Gould remembers her days volunteering in a Greenpoint soup kitchen, and the seemingly indefatigable woman who ran the show, Christine.

The New Yorker / November 24, 2016

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What’s Love Got To Do With It?

On television, marriage enters the twenty-first century.

The New Republic / October 10, 2016

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Imperatives

Maggie Nelson on birth, death, and everything in between.

Poetry Foundation / May 20, 2015

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How to Smell

There’s something about the very personal experience of smelling that makes pinning it down with words irresistible.

The New Yorker / March 10, 2014

How Much My Novel Cost Me

Writing my first book got me into debt. To finish the next one, I had to become solvent.

ART + marketing / February 24, 2014

On The Scent

In 2008 Luca Turin, a European biochemist who’d done groundbreaking research on how olfaction works, joined forces with Tania Sanchez, a thirtyish American, to produce an English edition of his cult hit French perfume guide.

Paris Review / February 20, 2012

Exposed

What I gained — and lost — by writing about my intimate life online.

The New York Times Magazine / May 25, 2008