Posts tagged emma straub
In December 2009,Emma Straub came across The New York Times’s obituary for Jennifer Jones, a film star from the 1940s and ’50s who was known for her rocky relationships and her struggles with depression. “I had never heard of her, and I had never seen any of her movies, but I read it and I was like, ‘There’s a novel,’ ” Straub says. She was working on another book idea, but she was haunted by Jones’s story. “I just kept coming back to the idea of this woman’s life. This woman who made the decision to become a movie star.”
From this week’s New York Times Magazine.
Photo credit: Erik Madigan Heck
YAY EMMA
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More Variety Hour fun!
Lookit these cute pics from Emma Straub’s variety show, Saturday night in Brooklyn. Featuring Andrew McCarthy, Stephin Merritt, Maris Kreizman, and Anaheed’s husband!
Literally the Best Thing Ever: Movie-Star Memoirs
Bad Girls Do It Well
Gossip Girl
Emma Straub's Life in Pictures: In Celebration of Enthusiasm
The writer Jacob Silverman wrote a piece for Slate today called ‘Against Enthusiasm.’ The essay mentions me by name in the very first sentence, and uses me throughout as a symbol of the ‘epidemic of niceness’ in the online universe. What is particularly hilarious to me is that I read…
Emma’s awesome response to this guy who I guess thinks if people are nice other people won’t criticize their books?? I dunno. His thing was hard to get through. -A
In my book, Claire Danes wins everything. I love that she looks like she’s about to take flight.
—Emma
