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The truth turned out to be stranger than any of the dystopian fictions in those letters to the editor. How quaint to imagine a president with an attention span robust enough to write an entire blog post. Will our president in 20 years keep a blog?” Predicted one indignant commenter: “The great irony of the present century threatens to be that the Internet, a medium with far greater potential than television, will prove to be a wasteland yet vaster, used mainly for looking at pornography and by egomaniacs publishing their banal maundering.” Another wondered: “Will we all one day acquiesce to more government-sponsored monitoring because, hey, it’s already all over the Internet, right?. The magazine received so many letters about the story-most of them vituperative, most of them written by people older than Gould-that it allowed the author to respond on its website. “This doesn’t make me feel stifled so much as it makes me feel protected, as if my thoughts might actually be worth honing rather than spewing.” The story’s denouement found her quitting her job at Gawker and password-protecting a hyperpersonal blog she’d been keeping about her feelings and romantic relationships, called “Heartbreak Soup.”

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The eight-thousand-word essay made her the poster girl of the overshare: It was accompanied by a series of moodily lit bedroom photographs that Gould herself described as “vaguely cheesecakey.” “Lately, online, I’ve found myself doing something unexpected: keeping the personal details of my current life to myself,” she wrote in the final paragraph.

Dimensions: 8.40in - 5.40in - 1.00in - 1.Twelve years ago this May, then-twenty-six-year-old Emily Gould wrote a cover story for the New York Times Magazine, chronicling her addiction to, and subsequent disillusionment with, what was then still a semi-novel cultural phenomenon: blogging.

It is a delightful and poignant tale of music and motherhood, ambition and com-promise-of life, in all its dissonance and harmony Book Details "A zippy and profound story of love, loss, heredity, and par-enthood (Emma Straub), Perfect Tunes explores the fault lines in our most important relationships, and asks whether dreams deferred can ever be reclaimed. But neither her best friend, now a famous musician who relies on Laura's songwriting skills, nor her depressed and searching daughter will let her give up on her dreams. Laura has built a stable life in Brooklyn that bears little resemblance to the one she envisioned when she left Ohio all those years ago, and she's taken pains to close the door on what was and what might have been. Fifteen years later, Laura's teenage daughter, Marie, is asking questions about her father, questions that Laura does not want to answer.

Their time together is stormy and short-lived-but will reverberate for the rest of Laura's life. A songwriter with a one-of-a-kind talent, she's just beginning to book gigs with her beautiful best friend when she falls hard for a troubled but magnetic musician whose star is on the rise.

Have you ever wondered what your mother was like before she became your mother, and what she gave up in order to have you? It's the early days of the new millennium, and Laura has arrived in New York City's East Village in the hopes of recording her first album. "An intoxicating blend of music, love, and family from one of the essential writers of the internet generation" (Stephanie Danler).