Emily Witt

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Emily Witt
Born1981 (age 42–43) [1] [2]
OccupationJournalist [3]
Literary critic [4] [5]
Writer
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAmerican
Citizenship United States
Education Brown University [6] Columbia University [6]
Cambridge University [ citation needed ]
Notable awards Fulbright 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]

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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

Essays and reporting

Book reviews

YearReview articleWork(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)

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  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 ....
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  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)
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  23. ↑ Online version is titled "Is 2019 the year of the consenticorn?".
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