Emily Witt Explained

Emily Witt
Birth Date:[1]
Occupation:Journalist[2]
Literary critic[3] [4]
Writer
Language:English
Nationality:American
Citizenship:United States
Education:Brown University Columbia University
Cambridge University
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Awards:Fulbright scholar
Livingston Award (finalist)
Website:author website

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

Life

Witt is a staff writer for The New Yorker and has written for numerous publications including The New York Times, Men's Journal, The New York Observer,[5] n+1, the Oxford American, the London Review of Books,[6] GQ, The Nation,[7] and Miami New Times.[8] Her writing has been described as a blend of "personal writing with social analysis."[9] [10] [11] Her book Future Sex explores how women see the dating world in the 21st century;[10] [12] 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."[13]

Witt is a graduate of Brown University and the University of Cambridge. She also graduated from Columbia's graduate school of investigative journalism.[8] While in Mozambique on a Fulbright scholarship, she reported on Mozambican cinema for U.N. news agencies including IRIN and PlusNews.[8] 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.[9] [10] [6] Her focus shifted to dating and technology and sexuality; she traveled to San Francisco,[14] dated often, and wrote about her encounters. She profiled the dating app Tinder.[10]

Witt noted that many coming-of-age novels rarely addressed the issue of sexuality from a feminine perspective.[15] 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.[16]

Bibliography

Books

Essays and reporting

Book reviews

Yearclass='unsortable'Review articleclass='unsortable'Work(s) reviewed
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)

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Mike Vilensky. November 5, 2014. The Wall Street Journal. N.Y. Midterm Elections 2014: Scenes From the Polls on Election Day. August 29, 2016.
  2. Web site: Tom Acitelli . July 20, 2011. Observer. Another Reason Duane Reade Is Everywhere. August 29, 2016. ... My colleague Emily Witt has an astute analysis .....
  3. Web site: ALEXANDER NAZARYAN. January 3, 2012. New York Daily News. James Franco sells a novel directly to Amazon. August 29, 2016.
  4. Web site: Brigid Delaney. 19 January 2016. The Guardian. A Little Life: why everyone should read this modern-day classic. August 29, 2016.
  5. Web site: JESSICA RUBIN. August 2011. StyleCaster. American Apparel Book: A Publicity Stunt For The Digital Age. August 29, 2016.
  6. Emily Witt. 25 October 2012. London Review of Books. Diary. 34. 20. August 29, 2016.
  7. Web site: G. Pascal Zachary. June 14, 2010. The Christian Science Monitor. Let's not stereotype Nollywood films. August 29, 2016.
  8. Web site: August 29, 2016. ProPublica. Emily Witt. August 29, 2016.
  9. Web site: CASEY SCHWARTZ. August 26, 2016. The New York Times. 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.. August 29, 2016.
  10. Web site: Marisa Meltzer. September 23, 2014 . New York Magazine. Why Are Your Married Friends So Into Tinder?. August 29, 2016.
  11. Web site: The Week Staff. May 1, 2013. The Week. Online porn: A new abstinence movement. August 29, 2016.
  12. Web site: Lara Zarum. June 4, 2015. The Village Voice. How a Columbia J-School Student Tracked Down the 'Patient Zero' of Music Piracy. August 29, 2016.
  13. August 2016, Publishers' Weekly, Future Sex (book review), Retrieved August 30, 2016,  ...
  14. Web site: MAUD NEWTON. May 24, 2013. The New York Times Magazine. Who Doesn't Love Pandas?. August 29, 2016.
  15. Web site: Dayna Tortorici, Carla Blumenkranz, Emily Gould, Emily Witt (interview/conversation). December 3, 2013. New York Magazine. Reading While Female: How to Deal With Misogynists and Male Masturbation. August 29, 2016.
  16. Web site: Amanda Hess. December 9, 2013 . Slate magazine. "It Was Like a Pile of Kleenex": Women Writers on Reading Literature's "Midcentury Misogynists". August 29, 2016.
  17. Title in the online table of contents is "A field guide to psychedelics".
  18. Online version is titled "Is 2019 the year of the consenticorn?".

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