Emily Witt Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Emily Witt is a staff writer at the New Yorker. Staff writer @NewYorker. Author of Future Sex, FSG, 2016; Nollywood, Columbia Global Reports, 2017; and Health and Safety, forthcoming from Pantheon in 2024.
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McKenzie WarkEmily WittThe book’s charm is in the autofiction, where the reader gets to inhabit Wark’s sense of liberation. It’s an unusually hopeful depiction of late midlife as a phase of discovery.
Paperback, 2023
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Future Sex
Emily WittEmily WittOn the subject of FUTURE SEX I wrote about the scientific frontiers of reproductive technology for @NewYorker. It was a fascinating and exciting story to report, one of my favorite pieces in a while, and changed how I think of the limitations of the body. https://t.co/Qc9YrIuaYq
Paperback, 2017
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My Dark Places: A True Crime Autobiography
James EllroyEmily Witt@annakhachiyan @s_amememe___ Even popular fiction like The Long Goodbye or memoirs about the fifties like James Ellroy’s My Dark Places have these clichés probably because they were real.
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American Prometheus: The Inspiration for the Major Motion Picture Oppenheimer
Kai BirdEmily WittToday’s most frightening technology is oft in the hands of far more hubristic people than Oppenheimer, whom Bird and Sherwin present with sympathy as a humanist… His life story is an inquiry into the question of how to contain science that has great potential for destruction.
Paperback, 2006
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Dancer from the Dance
Andrew HolleranEmily WittThis novel has such good descriptions of underground NYC nightlife in the 1970s. If you read Love Saves the Day but want to know more about how it felt strong recommend. Also in this book they call DJs “discaires.”
Paperback, 2023
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The Easter Parade
Richard YatesEmily Witt@s_amememe___ I recommend The Easter Parade, by Richard Yates!
Paperback, 2001
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