Emma Garland
@emmaggarland.bsky.social
music, sex & culture writer / editor.
first book TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS: A CULTURAL HISTORY OF MAINSTREAM EMO (2000-2013) COMING 2026.
emmagarland.substack.com
emmaggarland.com
first book TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS: A CULTURAL HISTORY OF MAINSTREAM EMO (2000-2013) COMING 2026.
emmagarland.substack.com
emmaggarland.com
ok, maybe four yearners and a nasty one. www.welcometohellworld.com/i-will-love-...
June 1, 2025 at 11:44 AM
ok, maybe four yearners and a nasty one. www.welcometohellworld.com/i-will-love-...
a short story about british strip clubs written entirely with words i harvested from reviews of british strip clubs:
open.substack.com/pub/emmagarl...
open.substack.com/pub/emmagarl...
May 19, 2025 at 8:41 AM
a short story about british strip clubs written entirely with words i harvested from reviews of british strip clubs:
open.substack.com/pub/emmagarl...
open.substack.com/pub/emmagarl...
my newsletter about desire has led me to places i wouldn't even go with a gun (weighing up the sex appeal of olly murs)
emmagarland.substack.com/p/gabrielle-...
emmagarland.substack.com/p/gabrielle-...
April 28, 2025 at 5:09 PM
my newsletter about desire has led me to places i wouldn't even go with a gun (weighing up the sex appeal of olly murs)
emmagarland.substack.com/p/gabrielle-...
emmagarland.substack.com/p/gabrielle-...
this and the virgin suicides (original motion picture score) by air
April 23, 2025 at 8:09 PM
this and the virgin suicides (original motion picture score) by air
pleased to have written the cover story for this week's @thetls.bsky.social – on joan didion, writerly myth-making, and the results of a few recent books that attempt to unpick the didion "brand." enormous thanks to @georgeberridge.bsky.social for the diligent edit.
www.the-tls.co.uk/lives/biogra...
www.the-tls.co.uk/lives/biogra...
February 26, 2025 at 3:53 PM
pleased to have written the cover story for this week's @thetls.bsky.social – on joan didion, writerly myth-making, and the results of a few recent books that attempt to unpick the didion "brand." enormous thanks to @georgeberridge.bsky.social for the diligent edit.
www.the-tls.co.uk/lives/biogra...
www.the-tls.co.uk/lives/biogra...
co-hosting a film screening for true freaks. nymphomaniac double bill – soho, march 16. i'll be giving an intro written especially for the occasion. tickets: dice.fm/event/yoln5v...
February 10, 2025 at 1:27 PM
co-hosting a film screening for true freaks. nymphomaniac double bill – soho, march 16. i'll be giving an intro written especially for the occasion. tickets: dice.fm/event/yoln5v...
happy reality (social media is over)
emmagarland.substack.com/p/gabrielle-...
emmagarland.substack.com/p/gabrielle-...
February 10, 2025 at 1:24 PM
happy reality (social media is over)
emmagarland.substack.com/p/gabrielle-...
emmagarland.substack.com/p/gabrielle-...
wrote about shame
emmagarland.substack.com/p/gabrielle-...
emmagarland.substack.com/p/gabrielle-...
February 4, 2025 at 10:04 PM
wrote about shame
emmagarland.substack.com/p/gabrielle-...
emmagarland.substack.com/p/gabrielle-...
for @dazeddigital.com i wrote about the new wave of erotic films and how, after years of prudishness and moral sanctimony, "sex is back" in popular entertainment – but saying what? www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture...
January 29, 2025 at 10:48 AM
for @dazeddigital.com i wrote about the new wave of erotic films and how, after years of prudishness and moral sanctimony, "sex is back" in popular entertainment – but saying what? www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture...
a true north in a wayward world and a fantastic head of hair on him until the head. RIP david lynch. emmagarland.substack.com/p/gabrielle-...
January 17, 2025 at 10:04 AM
a true north in a wayward world and a fantastic head of hair on him until the head. RIP david lynch. emmagarland.substack.com/p/gabrielle-...
this was a heater from garth greenwell www.theparisreview.org/blog/2020/01...
January 12, 2025 at 10:42 PM
this was a heater from garth greenwell www.theparisreview.org/blog/2020/01...
new newsletter on what robert eggers' nosferatu says about contemporary sexual anxieties, ft. shame, vampire simps, and female desire as divine rather than dangerous
emmagarland.substack.com/p/gabrielle-...
emmagarland.substack.com/p/gabrielle-...
January 12, 2025 at 9:25 PM
new newsletter on what robert eggers' nosferatu says about contemporary sexual anxieties, ft. shame, vampire simps, and female desire as divine rather than dangerous
emmagarland.substack.com/p/gabrielle-...
emmagarland.substack.com/p/gabrielle-...
wrote this for @newstatesman.com about 'better man', robbie williams' double-edged relationship with fame, and how his story is also a parable of british working class aspiration www.newstatesman.com/culture/film...
January 3, 2025 at 1:05 PM
wrote this for @newstatesman.com about 'better man', robbie williams' double-edged relationship with fame, and how his story is also a parable of british working class aspiration www.newstatesman.com/culture/film...
the rust cohle of south wales has entered the chat
December 26, 2024 at 10:31 PM
the rust cohle of south wales has entered the chat
in trying to invent new ways to make it through british winter i've become an evening exhibition person. felt even better to visit one of my favourite paintings, francis bacon's man in blue I, knowing it was dark out.
December 18, 2024 at 11:04 PM
in trying to invent new ways to make it through british winter i've become an evening exhibition person. felt even better to visit one of my favourite paintings, francis bacon's man in blue I, knowing it was dark out.
good read on luigi
joshuacitarella.substack.com/p/ceo-murder...
joshuacitarella.substack.com/p/ceo-murder...
December 10, 2024 at 9:14 AM
good read on luigi
joshuacitarella.substack.com/p/ceo-murder...
joshuacitarella.substack.com/p/ceo-murder...
recklessly revealing your identity as an assassin so you can chirpse the woman on front desk at a hostel ["a real hero" off the drive soundtrack plays] www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...
December 6, 2024 at 1:40 PM
recklessly revealing your identity as an assassin so you can chirpse the woman on front desk at a hostel ["a real hero" off the drive soundtrack plays] www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...
projecting my 2025 vibe to be addison rae washing her rover in nipple tape and a pinafore
December 3, 2024 at 11:42 AM
projecting my 2025 vibe to be addison rae washing her rover in nipple tape and a pinafore
one of many good 'related search' questions i typically get on my online travels, which are not worrying at all and reflect totally normally on me
November 28, 2024 at 1:15 PM
one of many good 'related search' questions i typically get on my online travels, which are not worrying at all and reflect totally normally on me
choose life and die!
November 25, 2024 at 12:18 PM
choose life and die!
posters simply do not go this hard anymore
November 22, 2024 at 9:44 PM
posters simply do not go this hard anymore
me: i am taking the lyrics and holding space with that and feeling power in that 😌
the lyrics:
the lyrics:
November 22, 2024 at 7:04 PM
me: i am taking the lyrics and holding space with that and feeling power in that 😌
the lyrics:
the lyrics:
it is a terrible burden, being right all the time
November 18, 2024 at 5:25 PM
it is a terrible burden, being right all the time
for what it's worth, this is the epigraph...
November 16, 2024 at 9:17 PM
for what it's worth, this is the epigraph...
consulting the ancient texts (norm macdonald's 2016 memoir that is hardly a memoir at all because it is mostly a web of lies as far as the order of events are concerned, but will hit you every few pages with a profound and devastating truth, like this one on gambling addiction)
November 16, 2024 at 7:41 PM
consulting the ancient texts (norm macdonald's 2016 memoir that is hardly a memoir at all because it is mostly a web of lies as far as the order of events are concerned, but will hit you every few pages with a profound and devastating truth, like this one on gambling addiction)