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Emily Gould

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born

October 13, 1981 in Silver Spring, Maryland, The United States

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http://www.emilymagazine.com/

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Emily Gould was born and raised in Silver Spring, Maryland, where she attended public magnet programs in middle school and high school that focused on Communication Arts and Media Literacy. This partly explains why she doesn't have a firm grasp on basic arithmetic. Otherwise, though, her early education was quite good, especially compared to what apparently happens in most of America's public schools. She went to Kenyon College for two years, then completed her B.A. at Eugene Lang College (The New School for Liberal Arts) in New York City. She has lived in NYC - first in the East Village, then in Greenpoint, and now in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn -- since May 2001. Recently someone said "I thought you lived in Manhattan!" and she was like "Ha ha...more Emily Gould was born and raised in Silver Spring, Maryland, where she attended public magnet programs in middle school and high school that focused on Communication Arts and Media Literacy. This partly explains why she doesn't have a firm grasp on basic arithmetic. Otherwise, though, her early education was quite good, especially compared to what apparently happens in most of America's public schools. She went to Kenyon College for two years, then completed her B.A. at Eugene Lang College (The New School for Liberal Arts) in New York City. She has lived in NYC - first in the East Village, then in Greenpoint, and now in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn -- since May 2001. Recently someone said "I thought you lived in Manhattan!" and she was like "Ha ha ha."

Since moving to New York Emily has had a number of jobs, not an infinite number or even a very large one, but if you count all the waitressing jobs it's like 10 or 12. She lasted longest at Hyperion Books, where she made it all the way to being an associate editor and most notably acquired a cookbook about bands' favorite recipes, and at Gawker, a gossip website where she worked for 13 months. Since quitting that job, in 2007, her work has come more in the form of "gigs." In 2008 she completed Alison West's 200 hour yoga teacher training and in 2010 she completed her basic back care yoga certification.

In her life Emily has had 4 blogs (not including Gawker where she was an employee). The first was called The Universal Review, and while people are always going on about "watch out what you put on the Internet, it lasts forever," this blog has actually been lost to posterity. Too bad in a way because some of the posts were pretty OK. The next blog was called Emily Magazine and it persists in some form til this day, although truth be told it is updated infrequently. For a brief and crazy time Emily and a friend maintained a blog about their love lives that included recipes, it was called Heartbreak Soup and it caused no end of trouble. Currently Emily has a Tumblr called Things I Ate That I Love and an Internet cooking show called Cooking the Books, where she invites authors of (mostly) fiction to share recipes and talk about their books.

She is mostly a cat person but also likes dogs and most other animals except spiders and roaches.

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	And the Heart Says Whatever 3.08 avg rating — 470 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	My rating:
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