Emily Witt

Emily Witt (born 1981 ) is an American journalist.

Life

Emily Witt grew up in a family of journalists in Minneapolis . She studied Portuguese at Brown University (BA) and then journalism at Columbia University (MA). She was in Mozambique on a Fulbright scholarship .

Witt first worked for a newspaper in Miami . Since 2006 she has been writing features for various newspapers and magazines. Witt lives in Brooklyn .

Her research-based book Future Sex was published in 2016 .

Works

• Future Sex: a New Kind of Free Love . New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016 ISBN 978-0-86547-879-4
  • Future sex: how we love today: a self-experiment . Translation of Hannes Meyer. Berlin: Suhrkamp, ​​2017
• Diary , Essay, in: London Review of Books , October 25, 2012, pp. 34f.

literature

• Nicola Davison: Love me Tinder . Interview, in: Financial Times , February 4, 2017, p. L&A 10 link

Web links

• Literature by and about Emily Witt in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Emily Witt in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Emily Witt , website
• Emily Witt , at The New York Observer
• Casey Schwartz: Sex and Dating: Now the Thinking Gal's Subject . Review, in: The New York Times , August 26, 2016
• Alexandra Schwartz: “Future Sex”: Adventures in an Erotic Wonderland , in: The New Yorker , October 17, 2016

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lidija Haas: Bedroom Eyes. Emily Witt explores alternatives to traditional coupledom , review, in: Bookforum , September 2016: Witt is a participant-observer, usually revealing rather more of herself than you'd expect from a reporter.