Emily Bowles
emilybowlesedits.com
Emily Bowles
@emilybowlesedits.com
Professional editor specializing in #arthistory 🎨🖼️ #arthistoryeditor 📚📝 she/her 💻 emilybowlesedits.com
Exiled Mainer 🌲🦞 Japanophile 🗾 Wellesley alum 💙
Starting a 2026 to-do list for @merriam-webster.com:
1) Add "semiquincentennial" 🤨 😬
December 18, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Once -- just once -- could it be above 40 degrees in the #ChapelHill #TraderJoes? I almost couldn't get my credit card out of my wallet. #raynauds
December 17, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Reposted by Emily Bowles
A French charity is testing an unusual fund-raising approach in the fine art world: Raffling off a Picasso painting worth more than 1 million euros to one winner. Each of the raffle tickets is on sale for 100 euros, and proceeds will go toward research into Alzheimer’s disease. trib.al/Xi9XqjE
December 10, 2025 at 5:18 PM
The sign of a long, long day of editing a messy, messy draft: the word "defenestration" pops into your head out of nowhere... 😑🖥️💥 #amediting
a window on the side of a house with a white shutter on it
Alt: image of person tossing their pc monitor out a second-story window
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December 10, 2025 at 10:14 PM
I love this so very much.
In sixth grade I used the word "stolid" in a paper and my teacher marked it as a spelling error, then accused me of cheating when I tried to argue, so I like to put it into each of my books as a cute little fuck you to that lady.
December 4, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Found myself unexpectedly #Whammed Wed morning. 😑Thanks go to the #DeltaKappaEpsilon brothers of #UNC, whose 10 AM, music-enhanced, #LDOC #uglysweater coffee gathering on their front lawn did me in... 🎅☕💥 #Whamageddon
December 4, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Can't wait to see this treasure at the #AcklandArtMuseum restored!
SO glad to have good museum news today: the Ackland Art Museum at UNC's (our!) amazing Nam June Paik sculpture is going to be conserved thanks to this award from Bank of America. newsroom.bankofamerica.com/content/news...

Nam June Paik, "Eagle Eye," 1996 ackland.emuseum.com/objects/4630/
December 3, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Maybe it’s the #copyeditor in me, but I can’t be the only one who nearly loses their mind every time Melinda Dillon’s time-traveling #1980s perm shows up in the 1950s of #AChristmasStory. #gah #holidaymovies
November 30, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Yesterday's #stetwalk was snowy, like a #NeilWelliver painting, making this #exiledmainer and #arthistoryeditor doubly happy! 😀 Looking forward to hiking with other editors in #SLC at #ACES2025. Who's in? ❄️🌲🥾🖼️🎨📚🖥️ #amediting
January 23, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Reposted by Emily Bowles
We are actually lovely people with wicked senses of humor. Just don’t f with us or our friends. We will destroy you
December 21, 2024 at 8:04 PM
Not quite sure how to respond... "Thank you?" (+ soul-piercing stare and crushing handshake OBV...)
Everyone I met who went to a women’s college is always terrifying

Shake hands with a woman who went to Smith or Wellesley or Spelman and they will look into your soul and crush your hand with their handshake
January 19, 2025 at 8:51 PM