Emily Witt

This article is about the journalist. For the mathematician, see Emily E. Witt.
Emily Witt
Born1981 (age 42–43)[1][2]
OccupationJournalist[3]
Literary critic[4][5]
Writer
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAmerican
CitizenshipUnited States
EducationBrown University[6] Columbia University[6]
Cambridge University[citation needed]
Notable awardsFulbright scholar[6]
Livingston Award (finalist)[6]
Website
author website

Emily Witt is an American investigative journalist based in Brooklyn with a particular focus on modern dating from the feminine perspective.[1]

Life

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.

Witt is a staff writer for The New Yorker,[7] and has written for numerous publications including The New York Times,[6] Men's Journal,[6] The New York Observer,[8] n+1,[9] the Oxford American,[6] the London Review of Books,[10] GQ, The Nation,[11] and Miami New Times.[6]

Her writing has been described as a blend of "personal writing with social analysis."[1][12][13] Her book Future Sex explores how women see the dating world in the 21st century;[12][14] 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."[15]

At age thirty, she found herself "single and heartbroken" and she resolved to explore why that was the case.[1][12][10] Her focus shifted to dating and technology and sexuality; she traveled to San Francisco,[9] dated often, and wrote about her encounters. She profiled the dating app Tinder.[12]

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[16]

Witt noted that many coming-of-age novels rarely addressed the issue of sexuality from a feminine perspective.[17] In Slate magazine in 2013, she noted that, in many classic novels, the subject of female sexuality was missing or subdued, in addition to having female characters being defined simply in opposition to dynamic male characters; when she turned to books written by men, she was turned off.[18]

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.
  • Health and Safety. Pantheon. 2024-09-17. ISBN 978-0-593-31764-8. [19][20][21]

Essays and reporting

Book reviews

Year Review article Work(s) reviewed
2019 "A blizzard of prescriptions". London Review of Books. 41 (7): 23–26. 4 April 2019.
  • Beth Macy, Dopesick, Head of Zeus, 2019
  • Chris McGreal, American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts, Faber, 2018
  • Sam Quinones, Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic, Bloomsbury, 2016)

References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ Tom Acitelli (July 20, 2011). "Another Reason Duane Reade Is Everywhere". Observer. Retrieved August 29, 2016. ... My colleague Emily Witt has an astute analysis ....
  4. ^ ALEXANDER NAZARYAN (January 3, 2012). "James Franco sells a novel directly to Amazon". New York Daily News. Retrieved August 29, 2016.
  5. ^ Brigid Delaney (19 January 2016). "A Little Life: why everyone should read this modern-day classic". The Guardian. Retrieved August 29, 2016.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Emily Witt". ProPublica. August 29, 2016. Retrieved August 29, 2016.
  7. ^ "Emily Witt". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2024-09-29.
  8. ^ JESSICA RUBIN (August 2011). "American Apparel Book: A Publicity Stunt For The Digital Age". StyleCaster. Retrieved August 29, 2016.
  9. ^ a b MAUD NEWTON (May 24, 2013). "Who Doesn't Love Pandas?". The New York Times Magazine. Retrieved August 29, 2016.
  10. ^ a b Emily Witt (25 October 2012). "Diary". London Review of Books. 34 (20). Retrieved August 29, 2016.
  11. ^ G. Pascal Zachary (June 14, 2010). "Let's not stereotype Nollywood films". The Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved August 29, 2016.
  12. ^ a b c d Marisa Meltzer (September 23, 2014). "Why Are Your Married Friends So Into Tinder?". New York Magazine. Retrieved August 29, 2016.
  13. ^ The Week Staff (May 1, 2013). "Online porn: A new abstinence movement". The Week. Retrieved August 29, 2016.
  14. ^ 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.
  15. ^ August 2016, Publishers' Weekly, Future Sex (book review), Retrieved August 30, 2016,  ISBN 978-0-86547-879-4...
  16. ^ Anna Altman (August 12, 2014). "A Meet-Cute of Professional Networking and Online Dating". The New York Times. Retrieved August 29, 2016.
  17. ^ 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.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  18. ^ 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.
  19. ^ Lozano, Kevin (2024-09-23). "The Rise and Fall of New York Clubbing". ISSN 0027-8378. Retrieved 2024-09-29.
  20. ^ Sherman, Rachel (2024-09-21). "A Night Out With Emily Witt, Author of "Health and Safety"". The New York Times. Retrieved 2024-09-29.
  21. ^ "Emily Witt's "Health and Safety: A Breakdown"". Los Angeles Review of Books. 2024-09-27. Retrieved 2024-09-29.
  22. ^ Title in the online table of contents is "A field guide to psychedelics".
  23. ^ Online version is titled "Is 2019 the year of the consenticorn?".