Emily Witt
Emily Witt | |
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Born | 1981 (age 42–43) Cambridge University[citation needed] |
Notable awards | Fulbright scholar[6] Livingston Award (finalist)[6] |
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Emily Witt is an American investigative journalist based in
Life
Witt is a staff writer for The New Yorker and has written for numerous publications including The New York Times,[6] Men's Journal,[6] The New York Observer,[7] n+1,[8] the Oxford American,[6] the London Review of Books,[9] GQ, The Nation,[10] and Miami New Times.[6] Her writing has been described as a blend of "personal writing with social analysis."[1][11][12] Her book Future Sex explores how women see the dating world in the 21st century;[11][13] Publishers Weekly described her book as "an illuminating, hilarious account of sex and dating in the digital age, when hook-up culture and technology have vastly altered the romantic landscape."[14]
Witt is a graduate of Brown University and the University of Cambridge. She also graduated from Columbia's graduate school of investigative journalism.[6] While in Mozambique on a Fulbright scholarship, she reported on Mozambican cinema for U.N. news agencies including IRIN and PlusNews.[6] She wrote for numerous publications and moved to New York City.
At age thirty, she found herself "single and heartbroken" and she resolved to explore why that was the case.[1][11][9] Her focus shifted to dating and technology and sexuality; she traveled to San Francisco,[8] dated often, and wrote about her encounters. She profiled the dating app Tinder.[11]
Like most people I had started internet dating out of loneliness. I soon discovered, as most do, that it can only speed up the rate and increase the number of encounters with other single people, where each encounter is still a chance encounter.
— Emily Witt in 2014 in the London Review of Books[15]
Witt noted that many
Bibliography
Books
- Future Sex. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2016. ISBN 978-0-86547-879-4.
- Nollywood: The Making of a Film Empire. New York: Columbia Global Reports. 2017. ISBN 978-0-9971264-8-8.
Essays and reporting
- "The trip planners : the unusual couple behind an online encyclopedia of psychoactive substances". Letter from California. The New Yorker. 91 (37): 58–63. November 23, 2015.[18]
- "The rules". The Talk of the Town. Hell, Yes. The New Yorker. 94 (48): 16–17. February 11, 2019.[19]
Book reviews
Year | Review article | Work(s) reviewed |
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2019 | "A blizzard of prescriptions". London Review of Books. 41 (7): 23–26. 4 April 2019. |
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References
- ^ a b c d CASEY SCHWARTZ (August 26, 2016). "Sex and Dating: Now the Thinking Gal's Subject: The writer Emily Witt in the woods near her family's home in rural New Hampshire, where she often retreats to write". The New York Times. Retrieved August 29, 2016.
- ^ Mike Vilensky (November 5, 2014). "N.Y. Midterm Elections 2014: Scenes From the Polls on Election Day". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved August 29, 2016.
- ^ Tom Acitelli (July 20, 2011). "Another Reason Duane Reade Is Everywhere". Observer. Retrieved August 29, 2016.
... My colleague Emily Witt has an astute analysis ....
- ^ ALEXANDER NAZARYAN (January 3, 2012). "James Franco sells a novel directly to Amazon". New York Daily News. Retrieved August 29, 2016.
- ^ Brigid Delaney (19 January 2016). "A Little Life: why everyone should read this modern-day classic". The Guardian. Retrieved August 29, 2016.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Emily Witt". ProPublica. August 29, 2016. Retrieved August 29, 2016.
- ^ JESSICA RUBIN (August 2011). "American Apparel Book: A Publicity Stunt For The Digital Age". StyleCaster. Retrieved August 29, 2016.
- ^ a b MAUD NEWTON (May 24, 2013). "Who Doesn't Love Pandas?". The New York Times Magazine. Retrieved August 29, 2016.
- ^ a b Emily Witt (25 October 2012). "Diary". London Review of Books. 34 (20). Retrieved August 29, 2016.
- ^ G. Pascal Zachary (June 14, 2010). "Let's not stereotype Nollywood films". The Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved August 29, 2016.
- ^ a b c d Marisa Meltzer (September 23, 2014). "Why Are Your Married Friends So Into Tinder?". New York Magazine. Retrieved August 29, 2016.
- ^ The Week Staff (May 1, 2013). "Online porn: A new abstinence movement". The Week. Retrieved August 29, 2016.
- ^ Lara Zarum (June 4, 2015). "How a Columbia J-School Student Tracked Down the 'Patient Zero' of Music Piracy". The Village Voice. Retrieved August 29, 2016.
- ISBN 978-0-86547-879-4...
- ^ Anna Altman (August 12, 2014). "A Meet-Cute of Professional Networking and Online Dating". The New York Times. Retrieved August 29, 2016.
- ^ Dayna Tortorici, Carla Blumenkranz, Emily Gould, Emily Witt (interview/conversation) (December 3, 2013). "Reading While Female: How to Deal With Misogynists and Male Masturbation". New York Magazine. Retrieved August 29, 2016.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Amanda Hess (December 9, 2013). ""It Was Like a Pile of Kleenex": Women Writers on Reading Literature's "Midcentury Misogynists"". Slate magazine. Retrieved August 29, 2016.
- ^ Title in the online table of contents is "A field guide to psychedelics".
- ^ Online version is titled "Is 2019 the year of the consenticorn?".