Summary
Anna Wiener is an American writer, best known for her 2020 memoir Uncanny Valley. Wiener currently writes for The New Yorker as a tech correspondent.[1]
Anna Wiener | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Wesleyan University |
| Genre | Non-fiction, memoir |
| Notable works | Uncanny Valley: A Memoir |
| Employer | The New Yorker |
Life edit
Wiener grew up in Brooklyn[2] and attended Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT.[3] She worked in the tech sector in San Francisco in an attempt to find a career path with more "momentum" than the book publishing industry, where she was previously employed.[4][5] Interested in data, particularly the way in which it could be used to tell stories,[5] she worked for the analytics startup Mixpanel and GitHub,[6] and befriended Stripe CEO Patrick Collison.[7] Her book, Uncanny Valley, never mentions the names of the companies she worked at or interacted with, though she often describes their products and corporate cultures in sufficient detail for the reader to deduce what they are.[6] After several years in San Francisco, she left the tech industry for several reasons, including its lack of response to the classified information released by Edward Snowden and a wider disillusionment with the corporate culture and sexism present therein.[8]
Since leaving tech, Wiener has been writing about Silicon Valley for The New Republic, n+1, Atlantic, and others.[citation needed] She is a contributing writer to The New Yorker.[9]
Bibliography edit
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Books edit
- Wiener, Anna (2020). Uncanny valley : a memoir. New York: MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Essays and reporting edit
- Wiener, Anna (January 4–11, 2021). "You've got mail : the newsletter service Substack claims to be the future of media. Is it a future we want?". The Critics. A Critic at Large. The New Yorker. 96 (43): 70–76.[a]
Critical studies and reviews of Wiener's work edit
- Uncanny valley
- Muhammad, Ismail (2019-12-22). "Inside Tech's Fever Dream". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2020-02-18.
- Westenfeld, Adrienne (14 January 2020). "Anna Wiener Dissects the Brain Rot of Big Tech in Her Searing New Memoir". Esquire. Retrieved 5 February 2020.
- Saini, Angela (2020-01-26). "Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener review – bullies, greed and sexism in Silicon Valley". The Observer. ISSN 0029-7712. Retrieved 2020-02-18.
- Ghaffary, Shirin (2020-01-17). "Things can get "really bad, really quickly" when a 24-year-old runs a company". Vox. Retrieved 2020-02-18.
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- Notes
- ^ Online version is titled "Is Substack the media future we want?".
References edit
- ^ "Anna Wiener". newyorker.com.
- ^ "About". Anna Wiener. Retrieved 2020-03-15.
- ^ "Aural Wes on Fader: Wesleyan's Breakout Bands". 23 December 2008. Archived from the original on 2011-01-06.
- ^ Wiener, Anna (19 September 2019). "Four Years in Startups". The New Yorker. Condé Nast. Retrieved 24 September 2022.
- ^ a b Simon, Scott (11 January 2020). "Living An Everyday Life Amid The Disrupters In 'Uncanny Valley'". NPR. Retrieved 5 February 2020.
- ^ a b Kois, Dan (January 7, 2020). "A Complete Guide to the Handful of Proper Nouns Anna Wiener Uses in Uncanny Valley". Slate. Archived from the original on March 21, 2020.
- ^ Tiffany, Kaitlyn (2020-01-14). "Why Normal People Want to Work in Silicon Valley". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2020-03-15.
- ^ Todd, Sarah (11 January 2020). ""There's a deep sadness to it": A new book takes on masculinity in Silicon Valley". NPR. Retrieved 5 February 2020.
- ^ "Contributors". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2023-12-18.
External links edit
- Official website
- Constance Grady, Uncanny Valley author Anna Wiener on the stories tech companies tell themselves Vox, Feb 3, 2020
- Pete Tosiello, Silicon Valley Hustling: An Interview with Anna Wiener, Paris Review, January 9, 2020
