Those years provide the raw material for her critically acclaimed new memoir Uncanny Valley, which paints a portrait of Silicon Valley in the boom period of 2013 through 2016. Wiener, who is now a contributing writer for the New Yorker, spent her years in tech working on the soft skills side, helping companies interact with human beings. She packed up and moved to San Francisco. She came to the conclusion that the best place for ambitious and bright young people not in publishing.
A few years after graduation, Wiener found herself stuck in a job as an assistant at a literary agency with no clear path for advancement. When Anna Wiener graduated from college in 2009, she did what so many ambitious young women who cared about books and intellectual culture did before her: She moved to New York to try to make it in publishing.īut publishing, then in the middle of a profound contraction, was not a welcoming industry.
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