Josh Berson
Fiction, essay, noise. My work includes The Human Scaffold and The Meat Question, along with occasional pieces for venues ranging from Aeon to Res to Jane.
The still point at the center of my thinking is the relationship between skill and value — how our habits, inter alia, of listening, breathing, sitting, and eating inform what matters and conversely.
Represented by Salma Begum, Greyhound Literary.
For consulting, speaking, etc write.
The Human Scaffold
Fascinating. —Gillian Tett, Financial Times
Looks directly at the questions I love reading about but from a different set of intellectual traditions than I’m used to. —Abe Burmeister, co-founder, Outlier
Anthropology for the twenty-first century. —Elizabeth Chin, editor-in-chief, American Anthropologist
The Meat Question
Choice Outstanding Title, 2020
A thorough, imaginative, and compelling rebuttal of the pervasive argument … that meat consumption is central to human existence. —Choice
Computable Bodies
2016 PROSE Award, Language and Linguistics