Trevor Corson

Trevor Corson is a writer, and author of the books The Secret Life of Lobsters and The Story of Sushi.

Trevor Corson is the author of the books The Story of Sushi and The Secret Life of Lobsters.

Corson spent two years studying philosophy in China, three years in Japan living in temples and studying Buddhism, and two years working as a commercial lobsterman off the Maine coast. As a journalist Corson has written about food, religion, foreign affairs, medicine, and a wide variety of other topics for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, and The Atlantic Monthly.

Corson was the managing editor of the literary magazine Transition, edited by Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. at Harvard University, during the years it won three consecutive Alternative Press Awards for International Reporting and was nominated for a National Magazine Award in General Excellence.

Corson's first book, The Secret Life of Lobsters, began as an Atlantic Monthly centerpiece article that was included in The Best American Science Writing. The Secret Life of Lobsters was named a best nature book of the year by USA Today and Discover, a best book of the year by Time Out New York, and went on to become an Amazon worldwide bestseller in the popular-science category.

Corson's second book, The Story of Sushi: An Unlikely Saga of Raw Fish and Rice (originally titled The Zen of Fish in hardcover), was selected as an Editors’ Choice by the New York Times Book Review; it also won “Best American Food Literature Book” of 2007 in the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards and was selected as a Best Food Book of the Year by Zagat.

Corson is a frequent public speaker and his work has been featured on CBS Sunday Morning, ABC World News with Charles Gibson, NPR’s All Things Considered and Talk of the Nation, WNYC's Radiolab, as well as numerous local television and radio programs; he has also appeared on the Food Network’s hit TV show Iron Chef America and has blogged for The Atlantic.

Corson is a recipient of a Japanese Ministry of Education Fellowship, has been a Knight Fellow at M.I.T. in the Investigative Science Journalism Boot Camp, and was a Visiting Writer at the University of Memphis. He is a co-author of the Blue Ocean Institute’s Guide to Ocean-Friendly Sushi and has been nominated for a 2010 “Seafood Champion” award from the Seafood Choices Alliance for his focus on sustainable ocean harvesting.

Corson has also written about the relationship between socialism and capitalism in Finland[1] for the New York Times and about social services in Finland[2] for the Christian Science Monitor, among other topics.

In 2010 he taught at The New School in the Foreign Languages program and from 2011 to 2013, he developed an Asian Studies program at Brooklyn Friends School and taught in both the World Languages and the History Departments. In 2016 he taught science writing in the graduate program in Science and Medical Journalism at the Boston University College of Communication.

From 2014 to 2016, Corson completed an MFA in creative writing at Columbia University while serving as a Teaching Fellow in the Undergraduate Writing Program there. Corson subsequently served as Lecturer & Course Co-Director in American Studies in Columbia's Undergraduate Writing Program. He was also an adjunct assistant professor in the graduate nonfiction creative writing program in the Columbia University School of the Arts.

Personal life

Corson is married to Finnish journalist Anu Partanen. They moved to Finland in 2018.[3]

Books
  • The Secret Life of Lobsters: How Fishermen and Scientists Are Unraveling the Mysteries of Our Favorite Crustacean (Print). New York, NY: HarperCollins. 2004. ISBN 0-06-055558-0.
  • The Zen of Fish: The Story of Sushi, from Samurai to Supermarket. HarperCollins. 2007. ISBN 978-0-06-088350-8.
  • The Story of Sushi: An Unlikely Saga of Raw Fish and Rice. Harper Perennial, Reprint edition [originally published as the zen of fish]. 2008. ISBN 978-0-06-088351-5.

Journalism
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gollark: The main issue with the self-assessed-value-based patent tax thing is that people who independently come up with an extremely good idea may not be able to secure enough funding to keep hold of it for a while. But I'm not sure how common that is.
gollark: Limit copyright to 10 years or so, with an extension if you give the copyright office the "source code" to release publicly when it's up.
gollark: So the idea is that *you* pick a value for your patent, and anyone who is willing to put up that much money can buy it off you.
gollark: One of them was to make it so you had to pay some % of your patent's value to keep it (probably an increasing-over-time amount). Now, you might say "hmm but how do you assess value", which is an entirely reasonable concern.

References
  1. Trevor Corson Finland is a Capitalist Paradise; Can high taxes be good for business? You bet. December 7, 2019, New York Times
  2. Trevor Corson What Finland can teach America about true luxury; Finns value time and solitude – along with a high quality of life for all citizens. May 1, 2009, Christian Science Monitor
  3. Kujala, Piia (9 December 2019). "Suomalaisäiti vertaili, millaista on elää pienen lapsen kanssa USA:ssa ja Suomessa – New York Timesin lukijoilta kommenttiryöppy". Ilta-Sanomat (in Finnish). Retrieved 9 December 2019.
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