Joe Fassler
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Denver, CO, United States
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Lab-grown meat has a P.R. problem
If you avoid meat to cut down on animal cruelty, carbon emissions or both, your options are a lot better than they were a decade ago, which is to say they’re … fine. For people who can afford to pay a… → Read More
The bowls at Chipotle and Sweetgreen are supposed to be compostable. They contain cancer-linked "forever chemicals."
Testing reveals that fiber bowls contain PFAS, a troubling class of chemicals with no known half-life. It gets worse from there. → Read More
A new lawsuit accuses the "Big Four" beef packers of conspiring to fix cattle prices
The plaintiffs say companies like JBS and Tyson Foods illegally plotted to force desperate ranchers into selling their animals more cheaply. → Read More
The man who's going to save your neighborhood grocery store
American food is increasingly channeled through handful of companies: Amazon, Walmart, FreshDirect, Blue Apron. What do we lose if traditional neighborhood supermarkets go under? A lot — and Kevin Kelley wants to stop that. → Read More
The Man Who’s Going to Save Your Neighborhood Grocery Store
American food supplies are increasingly channeled through a handful of big companies: Amazon, Walmart, FreshDirect, Blue Apron. What do we lose when local supermarkets go under? A lot -- and Kevin Kelley wants to stop that. → Read More
ABC News called it "pink slime." Now, USDA says it can be labeled "ground beef."
On the semantics of a product that scandalized America—and is now on a comeback tour. → Read More
Writing a Feminist Novel With a Man's Point of View
The author Tayari Jones explains what Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon taught her about the centrality of male protagonists in stories that explore female suffering. → Read More
Prison Food Is Making U.S. Inmates Disproportionately Sick
U.S. prisoners are six times more likely to get a foodborne illness than the general population. This article was originally published by The New Food Economy, an independent, non-profit newsroom that investigates the forces shaping how and what we eat. Read the original. Sign up for their newsletter here. → Read More
The Necessity of 'Willful Blindness' in Writing
The memoirist Terese Marie Mailhot on how Maggie Nelson’s Bluets taught her to explode the parameters of what a book is supposed to be → Read More
The Technological Shift Behind the World's First Novel
The author Martin Puchner on the way advances in paper production helped pave the way for The Tale of Genji → Read More
Prison Food Is Making U.S. Inmates Disproportionately Sick
Lapses in food safety have made U.S. prisoners six times more likely to get a foodborne illness than the general population. → Read More
What Writers Can Take Away From the Bible
The National Book Award finalist Min Jin Lee on how the story of Joseph, and the idea that goodness can come from suffering, influences her work → Read More
The Unexpected Lesson About Parenting—and Art—in Stephen King's 'Cujo'
The comedian and writer John Hodgman explains what Stephen King’s 1981 horror novel taught him about risking mistakes in storytelling—and fatherhood. → Read More
The Secret to Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Overnight Success
The novelist seemed to go from unknown to MacArthur genius in two years. In truth, it took decades. → Read More
The Secret to Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Overnight Success
The novelist seemed to go from unknown to MacArthur genius in two years. In truth, it took decades. → Read More
Carmen Maria Machado, Author of 'Her Body and Other Parties,' on Shirley Jackson and the Richness of Non-Realism
The author Carmen Maria Machado, a finalist for this year’s National Book Award in Fiction, discusses the brilliance of an eerie passage from Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House. → Read More
My 150 Writing Mentors and Me
What interviewing an author a week for several years has taught me about finishing my novel → Read More
By Heart: Celeste Ng on What Writers Can Learn From 'Goodnight Moon'
The Little Fires Everywhere novelist Celeste Ng explains how the surprising structure of the classic children’s book informs her work. → Read More
By Heart: Jenny Zhang on 'Sour Heart,' Roberto Bolaño, and the Power of 'Tiny Stories'
The "Sour Heart" author discusses Roberto Bolaño's “Dance Card,” humanizing minor characters through irreverence, and homing in on history’s footnotes. → Read More
By Heart: 'The Changeling' Author Victor LaValle on How Kenzaburo Oe Taught Him to Write Horror
The novelist Victor LaValle on how dark material hits hardest when it’s balanced out with wonder → Read More