Thursday, April 29 - 7 PM

As in "Fast Food Nation," Schlosser's analysis starts with fascinating vignettes of hidden realms — ingenious, multi-millionaire porn brokers, the Midwestern pot industry, the hillsides and garages where strawberry pickers sleep. He draws galvanizing parallels between underground and mainstream economies. And as in "Fast Food Nation" this view ultimately widens to take in the best and worst of American culture at large — entrepreneurship, greed, high ideals, and hypocrisy.

Eric Schlosser has been a correspondent for the Atlantic Monthly since 1996. His work has also appeared in Rolling Stone and The New Yorker. "Fast Food Nation," his first book, has been on the New York Times bestseller list for nearly two years, as well as on bestseller lists in Canada, Great Britain, and Japan.

Schlosser is currently at work on a book about the American prison system.