Emily Witt

Staff Writer @NewYorker. Author of FUTURE SEX (2016), NOLLYWOOD (2017) and HEALTH AND SAFETY (2024).

[Emily Witt @embot]

Health and Safety is out today in paperback! Thanks to everyone who has read and supported the book 💚

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“Mindlessly hedonistic, snobbishly insular, and punishingly cliquish though it might seem (and is), the booming Bushwick club scene has lately drawn the attention of ‘serious’ writers and thinkers.” New online: @comradesanchez on rave writing. https://t.co/gFlZFQBn3t

[Mother Jones @MotherJones]

The controversial weed killer Roundup is now being deployed in private and public forests at record rates.

We go inside the secret plan that helped make it possible. https://t.co/QVRWIQDQL2

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“People said that he was an avid philologist, and had a giant file devoted to the word ‘dust,’ and believed that it was imperative to learn Anglo-Saxon.” From Issue 11: Emily Witt on J. H. Prynne. https://t.co/iObSfCrPNM

[Emily Witt @embot]

R.I.P. to the Cambridge poet J.H. Prynne https://t.co/obnE16pH0n

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Track playing in the ambient room when a dude on the internet thinks the heads have never heard of Sheltering Sky https://t.co/YBm5SrP0FL

[Paul Novosad @paulnovosad]

I wonder how many people watching Sirat caught this reference to the Sheltering Sky (the book!).

Both incredible.

[Emily Witt @embot]

When you start "the world's biggest bookstore" and buy a print publication but think encouraging a culture of reading is a waste of money and kill its books section.

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A Talk of the Town from an elementary school in Minneapolis https://t.co/LZifE4DJ8C

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Dispatch from my hometown, wish none of this had ever happened https://t.co/FYA4jJlbjW

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@FedeMazza @lxeagle17 oh no am i being obtuse and performative for attention is there a website for that

[Emily Witt @embot]

@lxeagle17 ah cool, thank you for explaining that, let's keep going back and forth in a way that optimizes our engagement with a broken website instead of doing what's right.

[Emily Witt @embot]

@lxeagle17 Ah okay, so I'll credit him for doing that here in a random comment that nobody will read either. This is how it works?

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I wrote about ICE taking people off the streets of Los Angeles https://t.co/bfayJ9QoWE

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@sidez4 thank you for reading!

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✨My new book HEALTH AND SAFETY, out on September 17, is available for preorder✨ https://t.co/KlHEflwp3l

[Emily Witt @embot]

@sidez4 Alas, this book had no interest from non-US publishers, including U.K. 😢

[Resident Advisor @residentadvisor]

In this week's RA Exchange, @NewYorker staff writer Emily Witt (@embot) discusses how to protect the underground, experimenting with drugs and her new book, Health and Safety.

Listen to the episode: https://t.co/58XCLZuPhf

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

In L.A., is the military playing the role of an ordering force—or an occupying one? @embot reports.
https://t.co/k05WwyXqon

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@brownblaze Flow

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Boston-area followers, there's a fundraising gala for the Altadena family I wrote about in January who lost their homes https://t.co/ndJPRgs1u2

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I wrote about Bernie and AOC in Tucson for @NewYorker

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

At the “Fight Oligarchy” tour stop in Arizona, Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez hammered home a single message: the government has been taken hostage by a cabal of billionaires, and the only way to wrest it back is by unifying the working class. https://t.co/zBsxDq0TEn