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Paul Greenberg is the James Beard award-winning author of the New York Times bestseller and Notable Book Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food. A regular contributor to the New York Times’ Opinion Page, Magazine, Dining section, and Book Review, Greenberg lectures widely on seafood and ocean sustainability. His lecture venues include Google, the United States Senate, the United States Supreme Court, the Monterey Bay Aquarium, the New England Aquarium, The Culinary Institute of America, Harvard University, Brown University, Williams College, Yale University’s Peabody Museum, Chefs Collaborative National Summit, SeaWeb’s Seafood Summit, and Paine & Partners annual shareholders meeting.

A guest and commentator on public radio programs including Fresh Air, All Things Considered, and The Leonard Lopate Show, Greenberg is also a fiction writer. His 2002 novel, Leaving Katya, was a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection. In the last five years, he has been a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow, a W. K. Kellogg Foundation Food and Society Policy Fellow, and a writer-in-residence at the Bogliasco Foundation’s Liguria Study Center near Genoa, Italy.

In addition to his fiction and nonfiction writing in the United States, Greenberg has worked extensively overseas with long-term assignments in Russia, Ukraine, France, the Caucasus, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, the West Bank/Gaza, and many other locations around the world. His essays have been published internationally in The Times of London, The Observer (UK), The Age (Australia), SüddeutscheZeitung (Germany) and The Globe and Mail (Canada). Four Fish is forthcoming in Korea, Taiwan, Russia, Greece, Italy, Spain, and Germany.

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"How Scientists Came to Love the Whale"
The New York Times Sunday Book Review

"The Whitefish’s Burden"
New York Times

"A Tale of Two Cans: Why Canned Salmon Is Better Than Tuna"
The Atlantic

"Goodbye rohu, hello Chilean sea bass: the real price of the fish we eat"
Firstpost.

"Why Wild Salmon Is Worth the Fight"
The Huffington Post

"The Future Of 'Wild Fish,' The Last Wild Food"
NPR's Fresh Air

"Last Chance Foods: The Wild Side of Salmon"
WNYC

"A Must-Read Book on the Future of Fish"
TIME

"Paul Greenberg: The Future of 'Wild Fish'"
NPR's Fresh Air

"Greenberg: A Young Boy and the Sea"
Newsday

"Genetically Engineered Salmon's Empty Promises"
Gilt Taste

"Are We Over-fishing our Favorite Big Catches?"
Crosscut

"Seattle-Bound Paul Greenberg Mounts New Case Against GMO Salmon"
Seattle Weekly

"Fish o' the Future"
The Tyee

Paul Greenberg Interview
Salon

Four Fish is a New York Times Notable Book of 2010
New York Times

"Seafood Crisis"
National Geographic

"Catch of the Day"
The New York Times Book Review

"Taming the Wild Tuna"
The New York Times

"The future of the sea: Fish food"
The Economist

"Tuna's End"
The New York Times Magazine

Interview with Paul Greenberg
Orlando Sentinel

"The 20 Best Cookbooks of 2010"
The Daily Green

"Author's book explores future of fish as food"
The Times Union

"Slither Room"
The New York Times

Paul Greenberg Speaks at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
Eco Studies

"Smart Consumer: The unpalatable truth about the salmon on your plate"
Irish Independent

Review of Four Fish
San Francisco Chronicle

"Four Fish: A Book for Anyone Who Eats Seafood"
The Atlantic

"A Fish Oil Story"
The New York Times

"Four Fish: Author Paul Greenberg on saving the world's wild seafood"
The Seattle Times

Review of Four Fish
The Observer

"Will All the Wild Fish Be Gone by 2048?"
GOOD

"Taking pressure off our oceans may help save the Last Wild Food"
OregonLive.com

"Romancing Russia"
NPR's All Things Considered

"East and West Fall in Love but Find Coexistence Difficult"
The New York Times

"The Catch"
The New York Times Magazine

"Devil in a Blue Lake"
GQ

Paul Greenberg's Articles for The New York Times
The New York Times