The Basics:
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Best of Emdashes: Hit Parade
A Web Comic: The Wavy Rule

Features & Columns:
Headline Shooter
On the Spot
Looked Into

X-Rea: Rea Irvin Type
The Squib Report
In Memoriam
Personal

About us

Hello! I’m Emily Gordon, an editor, critic, copywriter, and pre-web internet nut. Emdashes, born in 2004, spent many years as a New Yorker fan blog. The project garnered some nice compliments and press.

The blog’s now treading the territories of punctuation, publications, movies, design, and other things that stir me.

Over the years, I’ve worked with a brilliant brigade of culture writers, editors, and artists. You can read all about the people who've helped build Emdashes here at “Who We?” (That’s a New Yorker joke. Old habits die hard.)

I welcome submissions, questions, corrections, and ardent, obsessive contributors. I also host occasional book-related contests and giveaways. Questioners and publishers, just email me.

Looking for The New Yorker magazine or newyorker.com? Kudos on your classy taste. Here’s how to find and contact The New Yorker.

Tell me more

Dashes, some say, “are particularly useful in a sentence that is long and complex.” Emdashes—like the em dash itself—provides a thoughtful pause amid the hubbub.

Unsigned posts are by me; other columnists and contributors include Martin Schneider, Pollux, Jonathan Taylor, and Benjamin Chambers, plus various guest stars.

The site was designed by House of Pretty with illustrations by Jesse R. Ewing.

Additional drawings are by Carolita Johnson and Pollux (author of Emdashes webcomic “The Wavy Rule”).

Jennifer Hadley designed the original Emdashes pencil logo, based on a 1943 Dorothy Gray ad.

Some writing by Emily Gordon

• Liveblogging: the 2013 Street Fight Summit, a conference on hyperlocal business
• Reviews: as a theater critic at Time Out Chicago
• Profile: Valerie Casey, Designers Accord founder, is spearheading the design of sustainability (for SXSW World)
• Feature: Rea Irvin: visionary art director, bon vivant, New Yorker founding father (for Print)
• At the scene: a festive downpour at the Coney Island Mermaid Parade; celebrating the lindy-hop legend Frankie Manning (for NYCgo.com)
• Feature: Muslim immigration iconography in the Netherlands, and an interview with Ayaan Hirsi Ali (for Print)
• Inquiry: Does a New Republic redesign mean a change of tune? (for Print)
• Interview: James Surowiecki on what's next for the wisdom of crowds (for Assignment Zero)
• Profiles: rising designers under 30 (for Print)

{Some more clips to snack on, pending a redesign of this whole clips business}

Blogroll highlights

• The Beautiful Sentence and Obscure Controversies (Emily’s distractions)
• Box Office Boffo (Martin Schneider on movies)
• World of Pollux (artist Paul Morris)
• Jonathan Taylor (scholar and critic)
• Carolita Johnson (cartoonist and rabble-rouser)
• My 2004-era blogroll (still current-ish!)

• Follow Emily on Twitter
• Befriend Emdashes on Facebook
• Get Emdashes swag at the CafePress emporium

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