Cosmo cover story.Emma and I met years ago when she came to a West Hollywood reading of my first novel, Sweetbitter, and we bonded instantly.
It wasn’t a networking move—Belletrist, her wildly popular book club, didn’t exist yet, and Emma had no reason to be there beyond the fact that she was a fan of the book.
That meeting sparked a friendship between us, two obsessive and passionate readers. At the time, I didn’t even know enough to be starstruck—or that Emma was Julia Roberts’ niece, which seems to be the opening sentence of just about anything ever written about her.Instead, I learned about Emma from Emma.
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