Yours truly, Trevor Corson, looking for lobster stuff. Got any? E-mail me
This was where I posted my irregular ramblings, reports, and pictures as the author of THE SECRET LIFE OF LOBSTERS from 2004 through 2006. This page is no longer active, and serves simply as an archive. To read new entries starting in 2007, please visit my new Lobster Blog.
To see scenes from Little Cranberry Island, where THE SECRET LIFE OF LOBSTERS takes place, and to read an interview with me, click here. To see photos of some of the people featured in the book, click here, and view the blog entries below. To see more pictures of weird lobster stuff, click here.
On the spur of the moment a few weeks ago I decided I was a lobster feminist. There are a couple of key points you should be aware of regarding this decision. First point: I made this decision out loud, sans premeditation, on the phone with the editor of the Boston Globe Magazine. Second point: said editor then published my announcement in said magazine, which has a circulation of approximately 700,000. These are all perfectly normal people, mind you, who have a right not to be assaulted early on a Sunday morning by announcements of such things as -- Exhibit A -- lobster feminism.
I didn't know the Boston Globe was going to put my quote in big orange type.
My quote in the magazine was printed in big orange font under a large photo of the hulking Bubba, RIP (see Bad News for Bubba, below). The Globe canvassed a number of Boston-area seafood experts on the fate of the oversized lobster, including the celebrated chef Jasper White, who hosted my book party for THE SECRET LIFE OF LOBSTERS last summer. Jasper agreed with me that Bubba should have been thrown back into the sea.
Here's what I told the Boston Globe, in case you missed it over your Sunday morning coffee on April 3rd:
"I would throw [Bubba] back, but not for the reasons that PeTA wanted. My interest is for all those pining females out there who never got to mate with Bubba. I'm a lobster feminist. Robbing them of Bubba was a crime."
