Anna Wiener is a contributing writer to The New Yorker online, where she writes about Silicon Valley, startup culture, and technology. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, New York, The New Republic, and n+1, as well as in Best American Nonrequired Reading 2017. She lives in San Francisco. Anna Wiener: When I moved to San Francisco, I was twenty-five and very lonely; I didn’t have many friends in the city. What little down-time I had, I mostly spent emailing with friends in New. Anna Wiener is a contributing writer to The New Yorker online, where she writes about Silicon Valley, startup culture, and technology. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, New York, The New Republic, and n+1, as well as in Best American Nonrequired Reading 2017.She lives in San Francisco. Uncanny Valley is. Anna Wiener’s new book, “Uncanny Valley: A Memoir,” is an insider’s look at life working in San Francisco’s tech startup scene. Photo: Jana Asenbrennerova, Special to The Chronicle Back in 2013 Anna Wiener was 25, working as a low-salaried assistant at a Manhattan literary agency and living what she calls an “affectedly analog.
Lately
On Clubhouse (New Yorker)
2020
On Substack (New Yorker). A profile of Moxie Marlinspike (New Yorker). A short explainer on CA Prop 22 (New Yorker). On the fires in September (New Yorker). On the fires in August (New Yorker). Feelings about Zedd (The Believer). On CDA 230 (New Yorker). On ghost kitchens (New Yorker). San Francisco shelters in place (New Yorker).
2019
A dispatch on Salesforce Park (New Yorker). A dispatch on Hipcamp (New Yorker). Girl, Disrupted (New Yorker). On Amazon PR, and Amazon consumer culture (New Yorker). Hacker News (New Yorker). Superhuman, and the challenges of ethical software (New Yorker). San Francisco at the beginning of the IPO wave (New Yorker). Jack Dorsey at TED, and the end of an era (New Yorker). The complicated legacy of the Whole Earth Catalog (New Yorker).
2018
A dispatch on cryptocurrency (New Yorker). The weird sadness of Facebook’s “Download Your Data” tool (The Atlantic). A review of Claire L. Evans's Broad Band (New Republic).
2017
Farewell to the Silicon Valley mythos (The Atlantic). A protest at Peter Thiel’s house (New Yorker). Is Maryellis Bunn the Millennial Walt Disney? (New York Magazine). Slack, Facebook, workplace culture, and parties in the office (New Yorker). Autonomous cars and the future of cities (New York Times Magazine). The startup approach to politics (Harper’s). Transhumanists, and how to solve the problem of death (New Republic). A brief history of the 404 error (Wired). The Museum of Capitalism (New Yorker). The infamous “Google memo” (New Yorker). Uber, sexism in tech, and why women rarely go public (New Yorker). The outlook for Uber (New Yorker). Immersion therapy in the Trump archive (New Yorker). A trip to Adidas’s Bavarian, robot-powered sneaker factory (Wired). A new generation of “ethical hackers” (New Yorker).
2016
The allure and anxiety of working at a San Francisco startup (n+1). A profile of Ellen Ullman (New Republic). Suck: the best magazine on the early web (The Atlantic). Reading copies of 1990s Wired (New Yorker). Conversations with strangers (The Awl). Office ping-pong; California’s aggressive freedom (New Republic). Silicon Valley’s diversity problem (New Yorker). Y Combinator’s Demo Day (The Atlantic). Idealism, the public domain, and Aaron Swartz (New Republic). The internet as art (New Republic). A San Francisco hackerspace prepares for Trump (New Yorker).
2015
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The women are talking (New Republic). Renata Adler’s collected essays (New Republic). The data-entry dystopia (New Republic). Linda Rosenkrantz’s realist experiment (New Republic). San Francisco, disaster preparedness, coming unhinged (The Offing). Lolita’s lurid road trip (New Republic). Disappearing into the archives (Longreads). LiveJournal, ska (Websafe2k16). In pursuit of a hyperreal black (Racked). A roundtable on Lucia Berlin (Vice). An interview with Vivian Gornick (Vice). Making architecture human (New Republic). Paris and the frustrations of the flâneur (New Republic).
2014, 2013, 2012
Falling out of love, cities, Speedboat (The Paris Review Daily). Production music, simulacra, and anxiety (Pacific Standard). A tragedy in Greenpoint, Brooklyn (The Paris Review Daily). Family, audiobooks, and Proust (The Paris Review Daily).