Joshua Foer

Biography

Joshua Foer is the author of Atlas Obscura: An Explorer’s Guide to the World’s Hidden Wonders (Workman, 2016) and Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything (Penguin, 2011). His writing has appeared in the New Yorker, National Geographic, Esquire, Slate, Outside, the New York Times, and other publications.

See Work

AMATEUR HOUR / Summer 2016

The Grubmeister

By Joshua Foer ,  Photography by Carol Hodge

On April 21, 2016, David George Gordon spoke with Joshua Foer as part of the ongoing series “Amateur Hour,” in which various tinkerers, zealots, and collectors discuss their obsessions. Gordon, who is a science writer, is also known as “The...
AMATEUR HOUR / Spring 2016

Gotcha!

By Joshua Foer

How Alan Abel Breaks the News
AMATEUR HOUR / Fall 2015

Lyres’ Club

By Joshua Foer ,  Photography by Kat Wilson

Christopher Nogy’s Passion for Medieval Instruments
AMATEUR HOUR / Winter 2015

Going Rogue

By Joshua Foer

Taxidermists Katie Innamorato and Robert Marbury show there’s more than one way to skin (and mount) a cat.
AMATEUR HOUR / Summer 2014

Paper Perfect

By Joshua Foer

An interview with Robert Lang, recognized as one of the pioneers of the marriage of origami with mathematics and technology.

Robert Lang, Alamo, CA, May 2014. (Photographs by Jason Motlagh)
AMATEUR HOUR / Winter 2014

The Master Touch

By Joshua Foer

Schuyler Towne, thirty, is an expert lockpicker. Learn about the art and ethics of breaking in.