Joe Fassler

Joe Fassler, a recent graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, is a writer living in Brooklyn. His fiction has appeared in The Boston Review, and he regularly speaks to authors for The Lit Show. In 2011, his investigative reporting for TheAtlantic.com was a finalist for a James Beard Foundation Award in Journalism.

Rick Perry Protested at Iowa Campaign Stop

Rick Perry Protested at Iowa Campaign Stop

The newest presidential candidate met some resistance outside the Hamburg Inn in Iowa City, but the crowd inside loved him More »

Factory Farms vs. Video Activists: Who Will Control What We See?

Factory Farms vs. Video Activists: Who Will Control What We See?

Iowa's attempt to ban undercover videographers from documenting animal cruelty is merely the latest battle in an ongoing war More »

Why Eliot Spitzer Still Thinks He's Right

Why Eliot Spitzer Still Thinks He's Right

A conversation with the former New York governor about his new book, "Government's Place in the Market" More »

Plastiki: Sailing Across the Ocean on a Ship Made of Plastic Bottles

Plastiki: Sailing Across the Ocean on a Ship Made of Plastic Bottles

An interview with David de Rothschild, whose new book documents his 8,000-mile journey in all its hare-brained idealism More »

How Copyright Law Hurts Music, From Chuck D to Girl Talk

How Copyright Law Hurts Music, From Chuck D to Girl Talk

A conversation with Kembrew McLeod, co-author of "Creative License: The Law and Culture of Digital Sampling" More »

'The Pale King': David Foster Wallace's Editor on the Book's Path to Print

'The Pale King': David Foster Wallace's Editor on the Book's Path to Print

Michael Pietsch describes how he turned Wallace's unfinished manuscript into a publishable novel after the author's 2008 suicide More »

How 'Bad Writing' Became a Great Movie

How 'Bad Writing' Became a Great Movie

A conversation with Vernon Lott, who turned the terrible poetry he wrote as a teenager into the inspiration for his first documentary film More »

Why Novel-Writing Is Like Spelunking: An Interview with Chang-rae Lee

Why Novel-Writing Is Like Spelunking: An Interview with Chang-rae Lee

A conversation with the author about his latest book, "The Surrendered" More »

'All Labor Has Dignity': Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Fight for Economic Justice

'All Labor Has Dignity': Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Fight for Economic Justice

A new collection of King's speeches demonstrates his dedication to the labor movement and workers' rights More »

Flavor Flav vs. KFC: A Dispatch From Flav's Fried Chicken

Flavor Flav vs. KFC: A Dispatch From Flav's Fried Chicken

Why on earth did a rapper and reality TV star pick small-town Iowa as the launchpad for a fast food franchise? More »

Conventional vs. Organic: An Ag Secretary Race to Watch

Conventional vs. Organic: An Ag Secretary Race to Watch

Iowa's too-close-to-call Secretary of Agriculture race shows that sustainability is gaining ground—even in the Farm Belt More »

Timeline of Shame: Decades of DeCoster Egg Factory Violations

Timeline of Shame: Decades of DeCoster Egg Factory Violations

Interviews reveal the criminal past of the man who gave us the 2010 egg recall—a man who would "screw even his best friend to the wall for a buck" More »

Before Iowa's Tainted Eggs, There Was Maine

Before Iowa's Tainted Eggs, There Was Maine

DeCoster eggs were infecting people 22 years before the recent Salmonella outbreak. But Maine cracked down. More »

In Iowa Egg Country: Stench, Suspicion, and Fear

In Iowa Egg Country: Stench, Suspicion, and Fear

People in Clarion don't like what the huge DeCoster-owned chicken and hog factories have done to their community—and don't like talking about it, either More »

Life According to Pete Seeger: No Computer, No Records, Just Singing

Life According to Pete Seeger: No Computer, No Records, Just Singing

The 91-year-old folk legend still believes in the power of song to transform society More »

Daytrotter: Where Good Music Gets Saved

Daytrotter: Where Good Music Gets Saved

The second in a three-part series on websites that showcase artists and songs you don't already know by heart More »

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