Emily Witt
{{short description|American investigative journalist}}
{{about|the journalist|the mathematician|Emily E. Witt}}
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| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1981}}{{cite web
| author= Mike Vilensky
| date= November 5, 2014
| website= The Wall Street Journal
| url= https://www.wsj.com/articles/n-y-midterm-elections-2014-scenes-from-the-polls-on-election-day-1415124411
| title= N.Y. Midterm Elections 2014: Scenes From the Polls on Election Day
| access-date= August 29, 2016
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| occupation = Journalist{{cite web
| author= Tom Acitelli
| date= July 20, 2011
| publisher= Observer
| url= http://observer.com/2011/07/another-reason-duane-reade-is-everywhere/
| title= Another Reason Duane Reade Is Everywhere
| access-date= August 29, 2016
| quote=... My colleague Emily Witt has an astute analysis ....
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Literary critic{{cite web
| author= ALEXANDER NAZARYAN
| date= January 3, 2012
| website= New York Daily News
| url= http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/pageviews/james-franco-sells-amazon-blog-entry-1.1637361
| title= James Franco sells a novel directly to Amazon
| access-date= August 29, 2016
| author= Brigid Delaney
| date= 19 January 2016
| work= The Guardian
| url= https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jan/20/a-little-life-why-everyone-should-read-this-modern-day-classic
| title= A Little Life: why everyone should read this modern-day classic
| access-date= August 29, 2016
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| language = English
| nationality = American
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| citizenship = United States
| education = Brown University Columbia University
Cambridge University{{citation needed|date=September 2023}}
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| awards = Fulbright scholar
Livingston Award (finalist)
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| website = [http://emilywitt.net/ emilywitt.net]
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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 graduate of Brown University and the University of Cambridge. She also graduated from Columbia's graduate school of investigative journalism. While in Mozambique on a Fulbright scholarship, she reported on Mozambican cinema for U.N. news agencies including IRIN and PlusNews. She wrote for numerous publications and moved to New York City.
Witt is a staff writer for The New Yorker,{{Cite magazine |title=Emily Witt |url=https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/emily-witt |access-date=2024-09-29 |magazine=The New Yorker |language=en-US}} and has written for numerous publications including The New York Times, Men's Journal, The New York Observer,{{cite web
| author= JESSICA RUBIN
| date= August 2011
| publisher= StyleCaster
| url= http://stylecaster.com/american-apparel-book-publicity-stunt-digital-age/
| title= American Apparel Book: A Publicity Stunt For The Digital Age
| access-date= August 29, 2016
}} n+1, the Oxford American, the London Review of Books,{{cite journal
| author= Emily Witt
| date= 25 October 2012
| journal= London Review of Books
| url= http://www.lrb.co.uk/v34/n20/emily-witt/diary
| title= Diary
| volume= 34
| issue= 20
| access-date= August 29, 2016
}} GQ, The Nation,{{cite web
| author= G. Pascal Zachary
| date= June 14, 2010
| website=The Christian Science Monitor
| url= http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Africa/Africa-Monitor/2010/0614/Let-s-not-stereotype-Nollywood-films
| title= Let's not stereotype Nollywood films
| access-date= August 29, 2016
}} and Miami New Times.{{cite web
| date= August 29, 2016
| publisher= ProPublica
| url= https://www.propublica.org/site/author/emily_witt
| title= Emily Witt
| access-date= August 29, 2016
}}
Her writing has been described as a blend of "personal writing with social analysis."{{cite web
| author= CASEY SCHWARTZ
| date= August 26, 2016
| website= The New York Times
| url= https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/28/fashion/sex-dating-books-single-women.html
| title= 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.
| access-date= August 29, 2016
| author= Marisa Meltzer
| date= September 23, 2014
| publisher= New York Magazine
| url= http://nymag.com/thecut/2014/09/why-are-your-married-friends-so-into-tinder.html
| title= Why Are Your Married Friends So Into Tinder?
| access-date= August 29, 2016
| author= The Week Staff
| date= May 1, 2013
| publisher= The Week
| url= http://theweek.com/articles/464920/online-porn-new-abstinence-movement
| title= Online porn: A new abstinence movement
| access-date= August 29, 2016
}} Her book Future Sex explores how women see the dating world in the 21st century;{{cite web
| author= Lara Zarum
| date= June 4, 2015
| website= The Village Voice
| url= http://www.villagevoice.com/news/how-a-columbia-j-school-student-tracked-down-the-patient-zero-of-music-piracy-7212795
| title= How a Columbia J-School Student Tracked Down the 'Patient Zero' of Music Piracy
| access-date= August 29, 2016
}} 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."August 2016, Publishers' Weekly, [http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-86547-879-4 Future Sex (book review)], Retrieved August 30, 2016, {{ISBN|978-0-86547-879-4}}...
At age thirty, she found herself "single and heartbroken" and she resolved to explore why that was the case. Her focus shifted to dating and technology and sexuality; she traveled to San Francisco,{{cite web
| author= MAUD NEWTON
| date= May 24, 2013
| publisher= The New York Times Magazine
| url= https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/05/26/magazine/one-page-magazine.html
| title= Who Doesn't Love Pandas?
| access-date= August 29, 2016
}} dated often, and wrote about her encounters. She profiled the dating app Tinder.
{{Blockquote|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{{cite web
| author= Anna Altman
| date= August 12, 2014
| website= The New York Times
| url= http://op-talk.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/08/12/a-meet-cute-of-professional-networking-and-online-dating/
| title= A Meet-Cute of Professional Networking and Online Dating
| access-date= August 29, 2016
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Witt noted that many coming-of-age novels rarely addressed the issue of sexuality from a feminine perspective.{{cite web
| author= Dayna Tortorici, Carla Blumenkranz, Emily Gould, Emily Witt (interview/conversation)
| date= December 3, 2013
| publisher= New York Magazine
| url= http://nymag.com/thecut/2013/12/reading-while-female-misogynists-masturbation.html
| title= Reading While Female: How to Deal With Misogynists and Male Masturbation
| access-date= August 29, 2016
}} 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.{{cite web
| author= Amanda Hess
| date= December 9, 2013
| publisher= Slate magazine
| url= http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2013/12/09/in_no_regrets_women_writers_talk_about_what_it_was_like_to_read_literature.html
| title= "It Was Like a Pile of Kleenex": Women Writers on Reading Literature's "Midcentury Misogynists"
| access-date= August 29, 2016
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Bibliography
{{Incomplete list|date=May 2019}}
=Books=
- {{cite book |title=Future Sex|date=2016|publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux|location=New York|isbn=978-0-86547-879-4}}
- {{cite book |title=Nollywood: The Making of a Film Empire |url=https://globalreports.columbia.edu/books/nollywood/ |date=2017 |publisher=Columbia Global Reports |location=New York |isbn=978-0-9971264-8-8}}
- {{cite book |title=Health and Safety |date=2024-09-17 |publisher=Pantheon |isbn=978-0-593-31764-8}} {{Cite news |last=Lozano |first=Kevin |date=2024-09-23 |title=The Rise and Fall of New York Clubbing |url=https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/emily-witt-health-safety-new-york-clubbing/ |access-date=2024-09-29 |language=en-US |issn=0027-8378}}{{cite web |last=Sherman |first=Rachel |date=2024-09-21 |title=A Night Out With Emily Witt, Author of "Health and Safety" |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/21/style/emily-witt-encounter-health-and-safety.html |access-date=2024-09-29 |website=The New York Times}}{{Cite web |date=2024-09-27 |title=Emily Witt's "Health and Safety: A Breakdown" |url=https://lareviewofbooks.org/av/emily-witts-health-and-safety-a-breakdown/ |access-date=2024-09-29 |website=Los Angeles Review of Books}}
=Essays and reporting=
- {{cite journal |date=November 23, 2015 |title=The trip planners : the unusual couple behind an online encyclopedia of psychoactive substances |department=Letter from California |journal=The New Yorker |volume=91 |issue=37 |pages=58–63 |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/11/23/the-trip-planners }}Title in the online table of contents is "A field guide to psychedelics".
- {{cite journal |date=February 11, 2019 |title=The rules |department=The Talk of the Town. Hell, Yes. |journal=The New Yorker |volume=94 |issue=48 |pages=16–17 |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/02/11/is-2019-the-year-of-the-consenticorn }}Online version is titled "Is 2019 the year of the consenticorn?".
- "[https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/07/08/a-pandemic-breakup The Last Rave]". The New Yorker. Volume C, No. 20, July 8 & 15, 2024.
=Book reviews=
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| 2019
|{{cite journal |date=4 April 2019 |title=A blizzard of prescriptions |journal=London Review of Books |volume=41 |issue=7 |pages=23–26}} |
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Category:21st-century American non-fiction writers
Category:21st-century American women writers
Category:Alumni of the University of Cambridge
Category:American investigative journalists
Category:American relationships and sexuality writers
Category:American women non-fiction writers
Category:Brown University alumni
Category:Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism alumni
Category:Educators from New York City
Category:American women educators
Category:The New Yorker people