Health and Safety by Emily Witt
WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD PRIZE * A NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR: TIME, NEW YORKER, PITCHFORK, LITHUB, AND NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW * From the New Yorker staff writer and acclaimed author of Future Sex comes a memoir about drugs, techno, and New York City"The first great book about what it was like to live through the Trump presidency"--Emily Gould, The Cut
In the summer of 2016, a divisive presidential election was underway, and a new breed of right-wing rage was on the rise. Emily Witt, who would soon publish her first book on sex in the digital age, had recently quit antidepressants for a more expansive world of psychedelic experimentation. From her apartment in Brooklyn, she began to catch glimpses of the clandestine nightlife scene thrumming around her.
In Health and Safety, Witt charts her immersion into New York City's dance music underground. She would come to lead a double life: By day she worked as a journalist, covering gun violence, climate catastrophes, and the rallies of right-wing militias. And by night she pushed the limits of consciousness in hollowed-out office spaces and warehouses to music that sounded like the future. But no counterculture, no matter how utopian, could stave off the squalor of American politics and the cataclysm of 2020.
Affectionate yet never sentimental, Health and Safety is a lament for a broken relationship, for a changed nightlife scene, and for New York City just before the fall. Sparing no one--least of all herself--Witt offers her life as a lens into an era of American delirium and dissolution.
Emily Witt is a New York City-based writer. She has contributed to publications such as The New Yorker, The New York Times, GQ, n+1, The London Review of Books, and others. She holds degrees from Brown University, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and Cambridge University, as well as having served as a Fulbright scholar in Mozambique. Farrar, Straus & Giroux released her first book, Future Sex, in 2016.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780593317648 |
| ISBN 10 | 0593317645 |
| Title | Health and Safety |
| Author | Emily Witt |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2024-09-17 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
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