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what do you DO exactly? i mean, i know new york is expensive, and im assuming your past the acceptable age for parents to “help out” … so you must be making a decent “living” just to be able to survive in the city.
my question is how??? im not being glib here. im just flat out curious at this point. seems like you spend a lot of time reading blogs? i mean, i know you did the gawker thing a while back, and im assuming you made some money off the new york times magazine piece, but how do you continually sustain yourself with such seemingly intermittent work????
please, help me understand this. it’s been of great mystery to me since i’ve been visiting the blog (a while now!)
Mom, seriously, you can just email me.
@ Curious: ROFL, you think some chick named “Emily Gould” actually exists as in corporeal form? If you did your homework (Google is good for this) you’d know the Emily Gould concept is either a persistent internet meme, stylishly-inscribed phrasebot, or a delusional state of mind. Well documented! Various real people and stalkers may, from time to time, pick up the baton and post blog entries or comments posing as EG (I myself have done so) but tracking them down is like trying to nail mercury to a sphinx. Didn’t you ever wonder why you never see Emily Gould and Fiona Apple in the same room? No less than The Paper of Record itself has recently fallen prey to this hoax (complete with pictures!)
Who is Emily Gould? You might as well ask “Why is the sky purplish green?”
Thus this mind-meld dream of Web 2.0 requires no sustenance beyond our belief that she (or it) exists.
What more do you want?
@ Curious:
If you had been a regular reader of this blog you would have seen the posts in which Emily hints at an upcoming book. So, I am guessing she received a book deal, wrote the book already and now is just sitting back waiting for her editor and agent to complete the final book-prep process (books don’t always appear at Barnes & Noble overnight after they are written, sometimes it can take up to a year). I knew someone who got a book deal and the payments went like this: $50,000 when the book deal was accepted by the publisher, another $50,000 when the manuscript was submitted, then a whopping $125,000 when the first edition of the book appeared at booksellers across the country (and this would soon be followed up by royalties for the same amount). My friend’s book wasn’t necessarily expected to have huge commercial appeal, but it did rather well by its own standards and he is still making money from it.
So, if you assume that Emily has a similar arrangement (assuming the financial figures I pulled out of the air are correct) and she has submitted the manuscript already and is in the waiting phase, and assuming it has been less than a year since the time the book deal went through–if this is the case then Emily has received $100,000 in less than a year. But, if my numbers are wrong and the payment process went something like $50,000 on acceptance of book deal and $150,000 upon submission of the manuscript, then she is hypothetically $100,000 richer.
Either way you can rest assured Emily is holding her own, and since she lives in Brooklyn instead of Manhattan, she doesn’t have an exorbitant rent situation which is squeezing her into a tight corner. Neither does she have a car ($30,000 just for a parking space in NY), she probably dresses modestly (did you see how plain she looked on the cover of the NY Times?) and I’m guessing she goes dutch treat when she eats out. Emily’s only luxuries are probably taxi rides and massages. All that will probably change, however, when her book comes out.
i can rest at ease knowing how emily gould supports herself in new york. thanks ma higgins.
ok! glad we’ve got that straightened out. i will just sit here counting my hypothetical money, then. sheesh.
@ ma:
I think you underestimate our girl.
I’m sure she has not only: “…received a book deal, wrote the book already and now is just sitting back waiting for her editor and agent to complete the final book-prep process…” but while waiting she’s probably knocked off two best-selling sequels as well. While learning Russian!
As anyone in the book biz can tell you: That’s money in the bank, baby!