"I just watched Dave Chappelle quit stand up. Out in the Comcast Theater in Hartford, Connecticut, shivering in the open air, I can't think that this is anything else. I felt this coming just five minutes after the silver curtain had dropped dramatically, by which point the former Comedy Central star had barely gotten any jokes out."

Blog post about a facebook response to the ny times article Emily posted

Six years ago, I had a deal with Lifetime Television to develop my bestselling novel, The Dirty Girls Social Club, as a TV series. It soon became clear that the relationship wasn't going to work, when two executives insisted that my pilot outline "wasn't Latin enough," because it told of middle class, educated American women who happened to be Latina.