Emily Witt is a New Yorker staff writer and the author of the memoir Health and Safety: A Breakdown, available from Pantheon.

Witt has covered breaking news and politics from around the country, and has written about culture, sexuality, drugs, and night life. She is the author of the books Future Sex and Nollywood. Her journalism, essays, and criticism have appeared in n+1, the Times, GQ, Harper's, and the London Review of Books.

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