There’s a profile of 24-year-old Glen Ridge blogger, Emma Koenig, in yesterday’s New York Times entitled “Wash That Blog Out With Soap.”

Koenig writes a popular Tumblr blog with a racy title that ends with “I’m in my 20’s.” The NYT says she also has a book coming out next month, and a deal pending with a production company to develop a television series. The Times describes Koenig’s blog as:

 …a sweetly dark look at a life stage, something resembling the HBO series “Girls,” but defanged a bit. Like the scribbles on a ninth grader’s spiral notebook, it is hand drawn, Ms. Koenig’s curly feminine printing in speech bubbles and checklists, flow charts and pictograms.

 

One reply on “NYT Article Profiles Glen Ridge Blogger”

  1. When I read this this morning, I saw “Koenig” and “Glen Ridge” and knew at some point that the feeling I had would come true, and about 3/4 of the way through– there it was: her brother is the insanely talented Ezra Koenig of “Vampire Weekend” (one of my have bands, though I wish they’d, you know, do that crazy thing that bands used to do: put out new music, but I digress.)

    With that though, the article was fishy- not too much info other than it’s “racy.” So I checked out the blog and saw a rather obvious attempt at much of the current 20-something stuff that passes as “humor” (the overly “confessional” kind) now. Sadly, as a big fan of “Girls” and the wonderful Lena Durham, I found Ms. Koenig’s blog reductive, boring and obvious. (Though I hope with her book and TV deal, she finds an original voice, and not just a Hydrox version of Ms. Durham’s Oreo.)

    But the dreadful and (again) obvious, and done-way-too-much “Speed Dating” video doesn’t give me much hope. Really, this kinda thing is way too pervasive in kids today- I see it in much of my students who seem, like Ms. Koenig to feel as if they are so special (“everyone gets a trophy!”), that they are the first generation EVER to well, be 20-something, be unsure about work, sex, friends… Did I say they were in their 20’s?

    So from this formerly 20-something from another time, I sign with an “oh well, whatever, nevermind…” to those “finding themselves.”

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