Emma Alvarez Gibson

Take a break.

Emma — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 06:06:18 +0000

ALL DISTORTION, ALL THE TIME by Derrick Brown Someone plug my lungs back into the guitar amps! I want to live on All distortion, all the time. Aren’t you sick of being appraised as just wholesale? Aren’t you sick of sailing on listing ships? Aren’t you weary from playing cellos with ex-lover’s bones? I want [...]

The Greatest Show On Earth

Emma — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 18:05:53 +0000

Like the fabled little-girl-with-the-little-curl-right-in-the-middle-of-her-forehead, when branding is good, it’s very, very good. And when it’s bad, it’s horrid. And here’s the thing: There’s a great deal of skill, finesse, and psychological fill-in-the-blank-ing that goes into the very best branding. But creating good, solid branding is not all that difficult; it just requires a level of [...]

Impressionable

Emma — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 06:42:45 +0000

I remember meeting A. for the first time when I was not-quite-three years old. Although he’s my first cousin, he’s only two years younger than my father, which would have made A. twenty-two, then. There was something dangerous and a little sad about him, it seemed to me from hushed conversations I’d overheard. But he [...]

I am he as you are he as you are me

Emma — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 23:27:52 +0000

Don’t forget: you are not immune from groupthink. Even when (especially when) you’ve succeeded in surrounding yourself with people who get you. Examine what you’ve assumed to be truth. Measure it against your empirical knowledge. Never stop thinking.

Love letter.

Emma — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 23:04:12 +0000

The people I love are the ones who create. On their own time, on their own dime, because this is the way they know how to live. It is the way they make sense of the world, and the way in which they can hear their own voices. They’re the people who create because it [...]

Languages I Do Not Speak

Emma — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 03:18:31 +0000

Neil Young Colin Firth Reality television Translators welcome.

The Girl Effect

Emma — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 22:19:25 +0000

I am not inclined toward grand statements about how infinitely superior Woman is to Man. Simply: I don’t believe it. We’re on this planet together. We have different gifts and different foibles. We need those differences. And we all need a fair shot at what Prince once referred to as “this thing called life.” [...]

Reminder!

Emma — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 05:53:01 +0000

The chances of it being about you are very, very, very slim. (Seriously.)

This.

Emma — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 04:42:46 +0000

Dreamiest couple ever. Ever. Decorate your sweltering home this summer with an abstract, inexpensive, really cute snowstorm. At a friend’s suggestion, I read A Ring of Endless Light over the weekend. Beautiful in that deep-thinker, deeply-wholesome L’Engle way. And it contains this old poem, which I’d never before read, and now love: If thou could’st [...]

Yes.

Emma — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 22:35:52 +0000

Jo Nesbø. I’m a recent convert to crime fiction. Nesbø’s work is everything that I (until a few months ago did not know I) want in a crime novel: A good-hearted, smart, tough protagonist who’s a raging alcoholic and often finds himself utterly humiliated by his peers and superiors alike; plots twists I can’t see [...]