Emily Witt Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Emily Witt

The 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.

Emily Witt

On 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

Emily 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.

Emily Witt

Today’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.

Emily Witt

This 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.”

Emily Witt

@s_amememe___ I recommend The Easter Parade, by Richard Yates!