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Happy 1st Birthday, Other People We Married! February 7, 2012 Today, Riverhead Books published their edition of Other People We Married. I could not be more excited–the book still has the same gorgeous cover, designed by my handsome husband, and has some nice new blurbs from Karen Russell, Kelly Link, and Thisbe Nissen, and all the typos have been fixed. Hooray! Lots of exciting things happened today: Elissa Schappell gave OPWM a shout-out on Vanity Fair’s Just My Type, a really good interview went up on Bomb, I made some banana bread, and I made a Facebook event page for my One and Only reading this spring. See below for photographic proof that Stephin and I have been doing work on our muse(s). Hope to see you there! love,
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The Wall Street Journal February 5, 2012
I wrote a piece for the Wall Street Journal about how to be an indie bookseller’s dream. You can read it here, and thank me later. Remember when Hugh Grant had a travel bookshop and Julia Roberts fell in love with him? Me too. love Share on Facebook and Twitter | Baking, BookCourt, Gossip, Love, OPWM Available at These Wonderful Bookstores
Sackett Street Writers’ Workshop Reading January 30, 2012 Tomorrow night, I’m joining my fellow Sackett Street instructors and alums Ted Thompson, Jessica DuLong, and Keija Parsinnen at BookCourt. I’ve loved all my Sackett Street classes, and I’m really excited to be a part of the community. Come if you’re free! There are secret copies of the Riverhead edition of Other People We Married available, too! Come if you can. Monday, January 30th, 2012 Hope to see you there! Emma Share on Facebook and Twitter | Events, OPWM Available at These Wonderful Bookstores, Workshops
Two Good Things January 20, 2012
1. Today we finally put up the Scalamandre wallpaper that I bought a year ago on Ebay. It is perfect. I’ve loved it since I was in high school and would admire it on the walls at Gino’s, an Italian restaurant that was across the street from Bloomingdale’s. Wes Anderson also used to admire it there, and he used it in the Royal Tenenbaums, and now Kate Spade has it in some of her dressing rooms, which is like so many things I love all at once, I can hardly stand it. Except that I can stand it, and I will now stand it every single day, happily. 2. Tonight I went to see Maira Kalman and Daniel Handler at WORD. They read from their new book and riffed affectionately off one another, and were completely adorable. When I said hello to Maira, and reminded her that we’d previously met at BookCourt, she said, oh yes, and then did a hand gesture that clearly meant *hair pouf*, and I died of happiness and satisfaction. love Emma Share on Facebook and Twitter | Gossip, Love, Uncategorized
From the Department of Good News, 2012 Edition! January 7, 2012 Yesterday, the mail lady delivered a very exciting package: my first copy of the Riverhead edition of Other People We Married, hot off the press. The book looks simply gorgeous: the cover is the same, but the book has new blurbs from Kelly Link, Thisbe Nissen, and Karen Russell, and is newly copyedited, and I couldn’t love it more if I tried. The pub date is February 7th, a month from today, and it will be available everywhere. Swoon. Because I did so many events to support the book in New York City in 2011, I knew I only wanted to do one giant smash for the new edition. I am pleased as punch to announce that I’m doing Upstairs at the Square on March 8th, with my dear friend Stephin Merritt. The event will be free and open to the public, held at the Union Square Barnes + Noble, at 7pm. Stephin will sing some songs, I will read a bit, and then we will both be interviewed live on stage by the vivacious Katherine Lanpher. The Magnetic Fields have a new record out in March, Love at the Bottom of the Sea, and it is SO GOOD. After the event, we head off with the rest of the band for a tour of the US and Canada. (Tour blog TK) The final piece of good news is a rather incredible feat of numbers: it turns out, that with 768 books sold at BookCourt, my book was the 3rd best bestseller of the year, after Patti Smith’s Just Kids (#1) and Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad (#2). Number 3! I’ll take the bronze any day of the week, ladies. A pleasure doing business with you. Here’s to 2012! love Share on Facebook and Twitter | BookCourt, Gossip, Love, OPWM Available at These Wonderful Bookstores
Get Thee to the Film Forum January 2, 2012
If you live in New York City, you have three more days to get to the Film Forum to see Otto Preminger’s ‘Laura,’ one of the best movies of all time–it’s noir, it’s hysterically funny, it’s got great costumes, and a man who writes his gossip column (on a typewriter) in the bathtub. I went this afternoon, and discovered a heretofore hidden secret truth: if you have Judith Anderson speak the word ‘adored,’ you have a perfect movie. (Note: the above image is a still from Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Rebecca,’ and features Anderson, on the left, as Mrs. Danvers, a wonderfully evil domestic, which is, of course, the best kind of all, as all lovers of the BBC’s Downton Abbey well know.) Yours in black and white, Share on Facebook and Twitter | Events, Love
Real! Live! Writers! December 31, 2011 Click here to watch me interview all the 5 Under 35 Winners, and the writers who nominated them. Note: you can tell when the cameraman tells me I’m too loud. It happens repeatedly. What can I say? love Share on Facebook and Twitter | Events, Gossip, Interview, Love
The Emma-y Awards 2011, Vol. 1 December 27, 2011 Most Underused Actor: Casey Affleck Best Sax Solo of All Time, Ever: My dear friend Ian Young, playing with M83 Best Book I Forgot to Put on My Best Of List: Amor Towles’ Rules of Civility Best Baked Good that I Didn’t Make: City Bakery‘s Pretzel Croissant Best Play: Lynn Nottage’s By The Way, Meet Vera Stark Best Idea We Ever Had: Houseswapping Best Restaurants: Gjelina (Los Angeles), Blue Hill at Stone Barns (Pocantico Hills, NY), the Russian Tea Room (NYC) People I’m Going to Miss: Coach Taylor and his crew. 2012 is going to be a biggie, and I’m looking forward to it. Clear eyes, full hearts. Happy new year. Yours, Share on Facebook and Twitter | Events, Gossip, Love
ESVS in the NYT! BFF 4 EVA! December 22, 2011
I am so thrilled to have an essay in the New York Times’ blog Townies. It’s all about Christmas, and the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, and my 6th grade boyfriend, and where I’m going to be buried. Read the piece here. Ho ho ho! love Emma Share on Facebook and Twitter | Love
Joy to the World December 19, 2011
I am a bit of a grinch (more on that next week), but this year, I’ll be damned if I didn’t find a little holiday spirit lurking deep within the depths of my soul. Reason #1: Housing Works Bookstore Cafe asked me to participate in their Second Annual Christmas Carol Marathon this afternoon, and I read alongside VIP humans such as Ira Glass, Law and Order’s Jill Hennesey, Stringer Bell’s lawyer, Lorin Stein, John Hodgman, and then about 50% of my Twitter friends, including Julie Klam, Ann Leary, Alexander Chee, Elissa Schappell, Kurt Andersen, AND SO MANY MORE. My first “job” in high school was at Housing Works (quotation marks because it was a volunteer position, but still), and I love the whole operation. If being in a giant bookstore filled with people listening to Charles Dickens doesn’t warm the cockles of your heart, well, then, how very sad for you. Reason #2: One of my favorite customers came into BookCourt on Friday with a holiday card for me–she is the mother of an extremely cute child, and he and I flirt shamelessly whenever possible. When I finally opened the card, after they had left, what I read made me cry. Here is what it sad: “Just wanted to say thank you for your kindness and warmth though out the first year of xxxx’s life. I know it’s your job to be pleasant, but you’ve gone beyond the call of duty to make us feel welcome every time we visit BookCourt. Best of all, you’ve made the book store a place that xxxx loves and have helped instill a lifelong love of books–the greatest gift of all.” You see? Just like that, this Scrooge is ready to deck the halls. The world can be such a glorious place. Yours, swimming with love, Share on Facebook and Twitter | Events, Gossip, Love
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