THE BLONDES

Longreads: Longreads Guest Pick: Emily Schultz on Roxane Gay and Tin House

Sat, 18 May 2013 14:21:06 -0400

Longreads: Longreads Guest Pick: Emily Schultz on Roxane Gay and Tin House:

Emily Schultz is the co-publisher of Joyland Magazine and the author of The Blondes, forthcoming from St. Martin’s-Thomas Dunne in 2014. She lives in Brooklyn.

“In writing about Benjamin Percy’s werewolf novel, Red Moon, Roxane Gay’s review transforms into a fascinating essay with…

Longreads: Your Latest Fiction Picks: Lorrie Moore, Tor.com and Taddle Creek

Mon, 13 May 2013 14:51:49 -0400

Longreads: Your Latest Fiction Picks: Lorrie Moore, Tor.com and Taddle Creek:

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In case you’ve missed them, here’s a quick list of some of the most recent #longreads #fiction picks from the community:

1. “The Side Sleeper” (Emily Schultz, Taddle Creek)

RT @taddlecreek: “The Side Sleeper”: a longish short story by @manualofstyle (Emily Schultz). …

Hurray! My story “The Side Sleeper” is a Longreads Fiction Pick!

My short story, “The Side Sleeper,” in Taddle Creek...

Sat, 11 May 2013 12:48:00 -0400

My short story, “The Side Sleeper,” in Taddle Creek Magazine is now online! If you’re interested in kleptomania or carbon monoxide poisoning, I especially recommend it. http://www.taddlecreekmag.com/the-side-sleeper

“The side sleeper’s name is Russell Mark—not that it matters, not to Christyna, who hardly ever uses her own last name. Usually she goes with Everett, or Johnston, or sometimes Johns. Christyna Johns. She likes the way it sounds. That is her name tonight and the past four nights.”

joylandmagazine: The new installment of our print journal,...

Mon, 06 May 2013 13:11:01 -0400

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The new installment of our print journal, Retro, is now available. It features stories from PEN/Faulkner finalist Amelia Gray, essayist Roxane Gay, Jon Paul Fiorentino, Jenny Halper, Lisa Teasely, Debbie Urbanski, Shannon Robinson, Leia Menlove, Lana Storey, Bryce Warnes, and Zoe Ferraris. The incredible cover art is by Happy Sleepy.

Retro 3 is 162 pages and only $11.95. Find out more and order it here.

The new Joyland Retro is here! …And don’t you think Brian could be a hand model?

joylandmagazine: Emily Schultz and Joyland TV created a PSA for...

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 13:16:39 -0400

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Emily Schultz and Joyland TV created a PSA for the very cool Project Bookmark Canada. In this announcement, Emily discusses how too many stories are set in New York City and not enough in Thamesville. See what other authors, like Margaret Atwood, did for the campaign here.

joylandmagazine: On this podcast author and editor at The New...

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 10:35:15 -0400

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On this podcast author and editor at The New Yorker Ben Greenman talks about why his new novel, The Slippage, is his most personal yet.

If there’s one word that can describe Ben Greenman’s fiction style it is “play.” His writing is a game that always invites the reader in whether he’s writing a story using charts, adapting Chekhov to star Paris Hilton or, as Ben does in his new novel The Slippage, telling a story of a suburban husband tasked with building a house by his wife. The Slippage, as Ben reveals to Truth & Fiction, is an important, personal turn. Ben and our producer Brian Joseph Davis also spoke about fake writer identities, life after being book critics, and why everyone can agree on Tootsie. The interview was recorded in Ben’s dining room last month and his two sons were so graciously quiet they were rewarded with being interviewed at the end.

joylandmagazine: Confession: As a teenager I first bought Allen...

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 14:04:11 -0400

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Confession: As a teenager I first bought Allen Ginsberg’s Howl because I thought it was the book The Howling was based on.

Joyland Magazine's Tumblr Presence: Truth & Fiction Podcast: Ami Greko

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 12:08:27 -0400

Joyland Magazine's Tumblr Presence: Truth & Fiction Podcast: Ami Greko:

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On this episode of the podcast: Publishing is a predominately female staffed business. As that business becomes a digital-first platform, it is running into the world of tech, a historically male centric world. What happens from here and why women still don’t feel confident talking tech are…

What was the first poetry you read?

Sat, 16 Mar 2013 12:49:02 -0400

What was the first poetry you read?:

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Emily Schultz asked a question on Twitter. Feel free to answer it there or here.

What he said! I am very excited about...

Tue, 12 Feb 2013 11:13:10 -0500

What he said! I am very excited about this…

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Congratulations to Joyland’s co-publisher Emily Schultz. Her novel, The Blondes, has been a best seller in Canada from Doubleday, sold for French translation and will now be published in the US in Spring 2014 by St. Martin’s/Thomas Dunne books.

There will be wig parties here in New York, we promise.

The novel tells the story of blond, rabid women devastating the city and beyond. Schultz wrote about some of the book’s background for Joyland here.

On Pins and Needles: Stylist Turns Ancient Hairdo Debate on Its...

Mon, 11 Feb 2013 13:08:00 -0500

On Pins and Needles: Stylist Turns Ancient Hairdo Debate on Its Head - WSJ.com

Love this…hairstylist by day, hair archeologist by night!

“Last month, at an Archaeological Institute of America conference in Seattle, Ms. Stephens says, a woman doing a dissertation on Vestal Virgin hair took issue with her argument that the Vestal hairstyle was built out of seven separate braids—not six as long believed.

‘I walked her through it,’ Ms. Stephens says. ‘There’s a logic to hair.’”

joylandmagazine: Congrats to Joyland contributor Tamar...

Fri, 25 Jan 2013 12:38:46 -0500

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Congrats to Joyland contributor Tamar Halpern on finishing her latest feature film (co-directed with Christopher Quilty). It’s a very intriguing looking documentary on artist Llyn Foulkes:

This feature documentary follows the painter and musician Llyn Foulkes from age 70 to 77 as he struggles to be acknowledged. During the seven years chronicled in the film, Foulkes creates, destroys and recreates a pair of large-scale, three-dimensional paintings, one that costs him his marriage, all while trying to keep a toe hold in the art market. With commentary from Dennis Hopper and George Herms, it’s revealed how Foulkes has avoided “selling his soul”, setting the tone for the next fifty years of his uncompromising, up-and-down career.

You can also read Halpern’s Joyland story here.

joylandmagazine: “Like Shirley to Laverne, or Marcie to...

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 11:01:27 -0500

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“Like Shirley to Laverne, or Marcie to Peppermint Patty, I had always been the sensible brunette friend.”

Joyland is happy to announce our first non-fiction piece today, “The Blond Inside of Me ” by our own Emily Schultz. First published in Elle, the essay details how, after a lifetime struggle as a hair outsider, Schultz turned blond for four months and entered an unsettling odyssey of identity.

For more information on submitting non-fiction to Joyland, please see our submission guidelines.

Some of you may have heard me talk about this piece I wrote for Elle. They generously let us republish it on Joyland. You can find out my entire tormented hair biography, and its influence on my novel.

Scents of the Nineties That Need to Come Back - The...

Sat, 05 Jan 2013 12:16:00 -0500

Scents of the Nineties That Need to Come Back - The Cut

It’s back…my shampoo from the ’90s! Would I use it today? That is the question. I recall the original Herbal Essences as being like drinking a cup of camomile tea in the shower. It appealed to the hippie in me during my university years. It really did little for my hair, and like much in the ’90s it was more about the marketing. Remember Fruitopia? As the joke on The Simpsons went, “The iced tea made by hippies, but distributed by a heartless multinational corporation.”

I remember with my first job in high school, I used to put aside $30 a week from the $99 I made to go shopping for hair and beauty products. The priorities of a teenage girl. Imagine if I spent a third of my income today so frivolously!

thecomposites: The Composites and my year in reading for The...

Sun, 23 Dec 2012 12:31:27 -0500

Annie Wilkes, Misery, Stephen King

Wyatt Gwyon, The Recognitions, William Gaddis

Mr. Wednesday, American Gods, Neil Gaiman

Woland, The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov

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The Composites and my year in reading for The Millions

I went through a lot of books in the last year doing this project and The Millions asked me to write about what it was like to give my choices over to Tumblr users.

Reading The Hunger Games the same month as William Gaddis? Yes, it was that kind of year for me and I talk a little bit about the tension between popular and unpopular fiction. Read the full article here as well as others in The Millions always-excellent Year in Reading series.

I’ve also reposted several of the referenced composites above.

For followers in the Dublin area, The Composites exhibition will be opening at the Illuminations Gallery at the National University of Ireland-Maynooth, January 28th through February 21st. You can find more information here.

joylandmagazine: simultaneousreads Very cool new user-submitted...

Sat, 15 Dec 2012 11:13:05 -0500

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simultaneousreads

Very cool new user-submitted Tumblr by Joyland contributor Naben Ruthnum that captures a very real condition for readers—simultaneous reading.

joylandmagazine: Extinction’s Effect on Childhood Toys -...

Sun, 09 Dec 2012 14:57:11 -0500

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Extinction’s Effect on Childhood Toys - NYTimes.com

Joyland contributor Lydia Millet’s stunning meditation in The New York Times on childhood toys, animals and extinction.

todaysdocument: November is Historic Bridge Awareness...

Tue, 20 Nov 2012 15:31:58 -0500

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November is Historic Bridge Awareness Month

Pedestrians on the upper deck promenade of Brooklyn Bridge, New York City, ca. 1910

The Brooklyn Bridge is a perennial hit — but what’s your favorite bridge?

Had to share this since I’ve long been researching bridges and their construction for my next novel…

Joyland Magazine's Tumblr Presence: Joyland This Month

Sun, 18 Nov 2012 12:50:05 -0500

Joyland Magazine's Tumblr Presence: Joyland This Month:

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Steinur Bell’s award-winning story How We Arrive had the distinction of being the last post to go up before Sandy hit. (And Joyland’s home office neighborhood of Greenpoint was mostly spared while we were stuck on the road touring Emily Schultz’ novel The Blondes). You may have missed…

Blonde 23: Amy Schumer Just saw her Comedy Central special and I...

Thu, 15 Nov 2012 10:01:01 -0500

Blonde 23: Amy Schumer

Just saw her Comedy Central special and I love this lady.

“Plan B-izzle, who’s taken it…? Who’s taken it? …Oh, sorry, a room of heroes.

…They were like, you’re gonna feel nauseous. I took it. I felt fine. I went to yoga. I’m like: Can these people tell I’m, like, mid-aborsh right now?”

—Amy Schumer in Mostly Sex Stuff