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Emily Gould is an author, journalist and the co-founder of a feminist publishing startup, Emily Books. She has written extensively for publications including the New York Times, London Review of Books, Guardian, The Economist, Slate and Jezebel, and since 2005 has run a popular blog at emilymagazine.com. She is the author of a collection of essays, And the Heart Says Whatever, and Friendship is her debut novel.
Funny and illuminating ... A clever, sharp novel about proper growing up -- Viv Groskop Red A sharp study of female friendship Observer Witty and easy to read. [Gould] provides uncomfortable if enlightening insights into what it is to be female and coming of age in 21st century New York, but there's the warm glow of real friendship too Daily Mail Truth-teller Emily Gould hurls her heart and mind into this hilarious, bittersweet tale -- Jami Attenberg, author of The Middlesteins I read Friendship with great pleasure. Emily Gould recreates with wit and insight the New York I know: a place full of fame and money that's not yours, where friends become family and lovers become ex-lovers, and the big questions about your life stay unanswered, and unanswerable, for a long time -- Chad Harbach, author of The Art of Fielding Emily Gould is massively talented, just as good at devastating us with an emotional truth as she is at amusing us with a clever joke -- Curtis Sittenfeld, author of Prep and American Wife Friendship's characters are brave, smart, wounded, stupid, petty and wise, like most of the people I know and love. Gould's humor and honesty gets us good and close to this world, and her wonderful particularity makes familiar things new again -- Sam Lipsyte, author of The Ask And the Heart Says Whatever comes by its anger and melancholy honestly, and it makes sense of much that is puzzling about our cultural moment -- Jonathan Franzen, praise for And the Heart Says Whatever
