Health and Safety

A Breakdown

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<b>WINNER OF THE <i>LOS ANGELES TIMES</i> CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD PRIZE • A NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR: <i>TIME</i>, <i>NEW YORKER</i>,<i> PITCHFORK, LITHUB, </i>AND <i>NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW </i> • From the <i>New Yorker </i>staff writer and acclaimed author of <i>Future Sex </i>comes a memoir about drugs, techno, and New York City<br> <br> "The first great book about what it was like to live through the Trump presidency"—Emily Gould, <i>The Cut</i></b><br><br>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.<br><br>In <i>Health and Safety, </i>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.<br><br>Affectionate yet never sentimental, <i>Health and Safety</i> 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.

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780593317648

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Buch

Maße

146 x 213 x 31 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2024

Verlag / Hersteller

Random House LLC US