Joe Fassler
@joefassler
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Not here much anymore. Author of The Sky Was Ours, @penguinbooks • fiction, climate, food • @hausofeels • find me on blue sky
Denver, CO
Joined October 2010
Some news that's been forever in the making: I wrote a novel! . It's called THE SKY WAS OURS. It's coming from @PenguinBooks next spring (4/23/24). This is the cover, which I'm sharing today for the first time. And it's available for pre-order now: . 1/x
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RT @MidtownScholar: On Thursday, October 10th at 6pm, join @EvanFriss in Harrisburg for a discussion + signing on his new book, The Booksho….
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RT @DeSmog: What are the 6 billionaire fortunes bankrolling Project 2025?. Find out in the new article from @joefassler 🔗. .
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More than $120 million from a few ultra-wealthy families who have spent years working to promote climate change denial has powered the Heritage Foundation and other groups that created the plan to...
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RT @BOMBmagazine: “When someone is putting forward a utopian vision, maybe the first question one should ask is, what does it leave out?” —….
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RT @PenguinBooks: "It has been forever since a novel moved so much in me." ✨🪶 Read EcoGather's review of THE SKY WAS OURS by @joefassler h….
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RT @DeSmog: Don't miss @lindsjean's article on DeSmog journalist @joefassler's new novel!. “The Sky Was Ours” reckons with escape, the fals….
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Ten years ago, when DeSmog journalist Joe Fassler began writing a novel, he never imagined it would have anything to do with climate or the environment. But as time passed and his novel evolved, he...
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RT @DeSmog: A new report is 'ringing the alarm bell’ for climate advocacy conflict of interest. Learn more in the latest article from @joe….
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A new report reveals Colorado firms have been lobbying on behalf of oil and gas interests while also representing climate advocacy groups for new regulations to combat fossil fuel pollution.
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RT @lindsjean: I had the pleasure of talking to @joefassler about his novel "The Sky Was Ours" for @desmog. Read our convo then grab a cop….
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Ten years ago, when DeSmog journalist Joe Fassler began writing a novel, he never imagined it would have anything to do with climate or the environment. But as time passed and his novel evolved, he...
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Can confirm — work @reading__den into your book tour and Denver will show up for you!.
Writers come to Denver and read at @reading__den! We’re averaging 50 audience members per event. Publicists… I know budgets are a thing but I promise we’ll make it worth it. Boulder Bookstore are SELLING. They come with stacks and leave with less. LFGGGGGG
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RT @lithub: “Maybe the thirst for flight itself became a kind of madness, the kind of desire that makes risk beside the point.” @joefassler….
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Years ago, for reasons I still don’t fully understand, I found myself writing about flight. It started as just a few paragraphs, a bit of spontaneous fiction jotted down in a notebook: a man stood …
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Research for The Sky Was Ours led me to the obscure history of human attempts at birdlike flight, a lost era of daring, incredibly dangerous experiments. It's a saga strewn with broken necks — and tantalizing possibilities. For @lithub: .
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Years ago, for reasons I still don’t fully understand, I found myself writing about flight. It started as just a few paragraphs, a bit of spontaneous fiction jotted down in a notebook: a man stood …
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The Sky Is Ours is out today! . As I wrote I spent so much time thinking about other novels and stories that examine technology—brave, new, world-changing inventions—as their central subject. @ElectricLit let me write about some of my favorites: .
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In these warped versions of reality, tech is expanding the scope of what’s possible, at a cost
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RT @PenguinBooks: ✨🪶 THE SKY WAS OURS by @joefassler is on sale TODAY! 🪶✨. Start reading the book @lsjamison calls "an immersive fever drea….
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An excerpt in @ElectricLit today—in love w/ Kyle McCarthy's gorgeous intro: . "Part of the pleasure of this novel is the sharp contrast between the ethereal and the gross bodily reality of living: the sharp smells of unwashed bodies and dried blood, and then the dream of flight.".
In this week’s Recommended Reading, Kyle McCarthy recommends an excerpt from “The Sky Was Ours” by Joe Fassler (@joefassler), in which a young woman encounters a man who believes he’s on the brink of achieving body-powered human flight.
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RT @PenguinBooks: In a STARRED REVIEW @ALA_Booklist calls THE SKY WAS OURS by @joefassler "intriguing. beautifully written." 🪶⭐. Preorder….
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RT @reading__den: We're 10 days away from the next Reading Den!. Join us on April 24th at 7pm at Fort Greene Bar to see @joefassler, @Caitl….
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RT @PenguinBooks: Anticipation is building for @joefassler's "humane, cinematic, and unstinting in wonder" (@hermionehoby) novel THE SKY WA….
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RT @PenguinBooks: On sale April 23, THE SKY WAS OURS by @joefassler is "bittersweet, life-affirming, and unforgettable.” (Kyle McCarthy) 🪶….
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RT @reading__den: We're back with RD3! . Join us on April 24th at 7pm as @joefassler, @CaitlinBarasch, @pattymccrystal, and @aefoxx come to….
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There's still a few weeks left to pre-order the book, which is about climate change and human weariness and the dream of flight. Also: the promise and peril of disruptive tech. Booklist's starred review calls it "intriguing. beautifully written." .
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“An immersive fever dream of a novel, beautifully written and boldly imagined.” —Leslie Jamison, New York Times bestselling author of The Empathy Exams From prizewinning writer...
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April is the cruelest month. It's also THE SKY WAS OURS-est month. My novel is out in just a few weeks (4/23)!. The amazing team @PenguinBooks put together lovely graphics with some early praise. Here's one, with quotes from Publishers Weekly's starred review:
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