The Zen of Fish: The Story of Sushi, from Samurai to Supermarket, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 2007.Ĭontributor to anthologies, including The Best American Science Writing, 2003, edited by Oliver Sacks and Jesse Cohen, Harper Collins (New York, NY), 2003. The Secret Life of Lobsters: How Fishermen and Scientists Are Unraveling the Mysteries of Our Favorite Crustacean, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 2004. Three Alternative Press Awards for international reporting, for Transition magazine Knight Foundation fellow in investigative science journalism, 2005. Has also worked on a lobster fishing boat in Maine. Writer, journalist, public speaker, and editor. I started paying attention to Finland because my wife is Finnish, but it also strikes me as a combination of my two favorite places, Maine and Japan.Born 1969, in Boston, MA son of an environmental scholar. “The Lobster Gangs of Maine” by James Acheson is an amazing book.īOOKS: What fiction have you read recently?ĬORSON: What I’ve been making my way through over the past few years is this huge trilogy about Finland called “Under the North Star” by Vaino Linna. Also, “Dark Sun” on the making of the hydrogen bomb by Richard Rhodes and Wallace Stegner’s “Angle of Repose.” I guess I had a fair amount of time sitting on that little island.īOOKS: What books did you read for your book about lobsters?ĬORSON: I was inspired to write my book on lobsters by William Warner’s “Beautiful Swimmers,” which is about Chesapeake Bay crab fishermen. I read “The Unconsoled’’ by Kazuo Ishiguro, David McCullough’s “Truman,” and some Zora Neale Hurston. Thanks to technology I have this fourth-century BC Chinese philosopher on my phone.īOOKS: What’s in there from the lobstering era?ĬORSON: Wow, I read several Toni Morrison novels on that little island filled with white people. Then I was reading the old Taoist philosophers like Chuang Tzu.
I started the list in this dusty old Chinese notebook I bought in Beijing.
At first I wrote a little essay about each book but that became too time consuming. CORSON: It starts in 1987 when I graduated from high school, when I went to China for two years.
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