Jason Fagone

I'm a 34-year-old journalist in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. I write about science, sports, and culture for Wired magazine, where I'm a contributing editor, and Philadelphia magazine, where I'm a writer at large. My work has also appeared in GQ, Esquire, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, Slate, Kill Screen, The Penn Stater, Wharton Magazine, Etiqueta Negra, and Deadspin. I have a piece in the 2011 edition of The Best American Sports Writing, an anthology edited by Jane Leavy and Glenn Stout.

In 2006, I spent a year reporting on eating contests and wrote a book called Horsemen of the Esophagus. I'm now working on my second book, about futuristic cars and the people who make them, for Crown/Random House. It's called Ingenious, and it will be published in March 2013.

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• How a Reddit Comment Became a Big-Budget Flick
  Wired, April 2012
• The Death (and Life) of the Philly Weekly and the Philly City Paper
  Philadelphia, June 2012
• Schoolly D is Living the American Dream
  Philadelphia, April 2012
• There's Gold in that Scrap
  New York Times Magazine, August 2011
• Bigger than Jesus
  Wired, August 2011
• May the Best Nerd Win
  Wired, December 2010
• The Man Who Duped City Hall
  Philadelphia, October 2010
• Can Some Out-of-Work Racing Engineers Save the Planet?
  Slate, June 2010
• Big Buck Hunter
  Kill Screen, Spring 2010
• The Dirtiest Player
  GQ, February 2010
• Does God Have a Tim Tebow Complex?
  GQ, September 2009
• The Videogame Programmer Saving Our 21st-Century Souls
  Esquire, December 2008
• Jerry Blavat Finds the Fountain of Youth
  Philadelphia, May 2008
• Press Lord 2.0
  Philadelphia, April 2007
• Horsemen of the Esophagus
  The Atlantic, May 2006
• The Great Gusto of Jimmy Binns
  Philadelphia, February 2006
• Can This Man be Straight?
  Philadelphia, October 2004