Anna Wiener
NationalityAmerican
Alma materWesleyan University
GenreNon-fiction, memoir
Notable worksUncanny Valley: A Memoir
EmployerThe New Yorker

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]

Life

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

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Books

Essays and reporting

Critical studies and reviews of Wiener's work

Uncanny valley

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Notes
  1. ^ Online version is titled "Is Substack the media future we want?".

References

  1. ^ "Anna Wiener". newyorker.com.
  2. ^ "About". Anna Wiener. Retrieved 2020-03-15.
  3. ^ "Aural Wes on Fader: Wesleyan's Breakout Bands". 23 December 2008. Archived from the original on 2011-01-06.
  4. ^ Wiener, Anna (19 September 2019). "Four Years in Startups". The New Yorker. Condé Nast. Retrieved 24 September 2022.
  5. ^ a b Simon, Scott (11 January 2020). "Living An Everyday Life Amid The Disrupters In 'Uncanny Valley'". NPR. Retrieved 5 February 2020.
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ Tiffany, Kaitlyn (2020-01-14). "Why Normal People Want to Work in Silicon Valley". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2020-03-15.
  8. ^ 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.
  9. ^ "Contributors". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2023-12-18.

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