Aram Zucker-Scharff

Stop Getting Mad About Emily Gould’s Novel:

You know what? F*ck the NYT book review and the ridiculous 11,000 word blog post that I can’t even start reading because it’s so terrible. I’m just going to buy Emily Gould’s novel; at least to spite the assholes, at most because hey, I might enjoy it.

She’s not the best writer in the world, but she’s not so bad as to deserve the vitriol. I enjoyed her essay I shared earlier this year.

And lets be freaking honest. If she started her career 20 years older (or, probably, 5-10 years older and male, or possibly just male), *none* of the pretty awful reactions to her or her writing would be around.

Stop Getting Mad About Emily Gould’s Novel:

You know what? F*ck the NYT book review and the ridiculous 11,000 word blog post that I can’t even start reading because it’s so terrible. I’m just going to buy Emily Gould’s novel; at least to spite the assholes, at most because hey, I might enjoy it.

She’s not the best writer in the world, but she’s not so bad as to deserve the vitriol. I enjoyed her essay I shared earlier this year.

And lets be freaking honest. If she started her career 20 years older (or, probably, 5-10 years older and male, or possibly just male), *none* of the pretty awful reactions to her or her writing would be around.

At this stage in the evolution of lit apps (if I can call them that), everyone who is not a writer shares the same aim: to work out how to make money from screen-based text.Clipped from www.theliteraryplatform.comSo far, so simple. The first and until now most successful literary adaptation has been the apping of T.S.Eliot’s […]