The Hooksexup Interview: Eric Schlosser
by Michael Martin

Eric Schlosser's first book, Fast Food Nation, split the to-go industry wide open, exposing everything from how the taste of french fries is designed to the fecal matter in the kitchen sink. En route to the New York Times bestseller list, the book became a minor miracle of viral marketing: what was essentially a 400-page investigative report became a fixture on every twenty-five-year-old's reading list. His new book, Reefer Madness, is less exhaustive but equally essential reading. In three pieces originally written for The New Yorker and The Atlantic, Schlosser takes a similarly deconstructive look at three products of the American black market: pot, porn and migrant labor.