20 People to Follow on Twitter: #20, Emma Gilbey Keller
Throughout the month, we're counting down our most favorite Twitter accounts, ranging from the infamous to the fake to the most horrific and the most hilarious. Let the games begin!
On the train to DC to see my buddy Hitchens.
Emma Gilbey Keller
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Emma Gilbey Keller, the author of a biography of Winnie Mandela, The Comeback: Seven Stories of Women Who Went from Career to Family and Back Again and the forthcoming and perhaps terrifying book about "20th Century mothers of 21st Century daughters," is also the spouse of New York Times executive editor Bill Keller. This is something that comes up frequently! And it is delightful—media reporters are addicted to her.
@skstanding in gd form. Had a v fun time. Now rereading bills piece on the train home. Can't remember him writing it.When does he do it all?Emma Gilbey Keller
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The best read EVER! @nytkeller aka my husband on working with @wikileaks http://nyti.ms/eV7s6T. Signed His FlunkyEmma Gilbey Keller
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Her most commendable and surprising quality? Outright adoration of Gawker's Richard Lawson.
@rilaws you are so brilliant. How do you manage it every week?? Nail those housewives every time. I'm genuflecting at your twitter feed.Emma Gilbey Keller
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@carr2n thanks for the DVDs and for arranging for the snow to fall outside while we watch them.Emma Gilbey Keller
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One thing that's also enjoyable to watch is the interplay with her husband's coworkers.
Married in 1998, after the dissolution of Bill Keller's previous marriage, she is referred to sometimes as a "gin heiress," which isn't terribly fair (and something into which we have no insight), but that is very terrifically English. She should run with that. Pro tip: read her twitter out loud with a really terrible put-on English accent, it totally jells.
Oh, I'm the only one who read her name as "Kimmy Gibbler"? Fuck all y'alls.
Full House FTW!
I'M THE MAN NOW, DOG.
She should send Esme round to hoover your portmanteau.
"I am genuflecting at your Twitter feed."
That is hot.
@MayorEmanuel, FTW
Googling reveals other amazing (and hopefully true!) things about Mrs. Keller. A dater of both John Kerry AND Pink Floyd's David Gilmour! And cousin to one of Princess Diana's special friends.
Choire, yours is the only twitter feed for me.
@NYCASP is the only twitter feed for me.
This is already my favorite series on the Internet ever.
And if it's not daily … ?
Ok, I'm using my Dame Edna voice for "Nail those housewives every time." Things are more comfusing than jelling.
Any chance for best twitter accounts with under 60 followers who basically just retweet stuff? Hint, hint.
deliciously evil