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Emily Gould

Emily Gould is the cofounder of Emily Books and the author of the novel “Friendship” and the essay collection “And the Heart Says Whatever.”

Johnny Galecki, Jim Parsons and Kaley Cuoco in "The Big Bang Theory" (CBS/Monty Brinton)

What’s so funny about “The Big Bang Theory”?

Emily Gould
Jonah Lehrer, James Frey, Stephen Glass (Wikicommons/Kris Krüg/HarperCollins/Terry Richardson/Simon & Schuster/David Bartolomi)

Go away, Jonah Lehrer: Stephen Glass, James Frey and the white guy literary forgiveness project

Emily Gould

The right’s Lena Dunham nonsense just won’t stop

Emily Gould
Jian Ghomeshi (Reuters/Mark Blinch)

We’ve all known a Jian Ghomeshi

Emily Gould
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Regrets of my “basic bitch” Halloween costume

Emily Gould
(Hollaback/Rob Bliss)

Race, “catcalling” and #notallmen: Making sense of the viral street harassment video

Emily Gould
(Harlequin)

Petty, obsessive, egotistical, self-loathing: Margo Howard, William Giraldi and why authors need to stay off the Internet

Emily Gould
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Vox on Amazon: Way off-base, not entirely wrong

Emily Gould
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I left New York for Moscow

Emily Gould