Jess Bergman

Jess Bergman is a senior editor at The Baffler and a contributing writer at Jewish Currents.

A businessman hitchhiking at a gas station in Oregon, 1973.

Can We Imagine Life Without Oil? Can We Imagine Life Without Oil?

Mobility, a novel by Lydia Kiesling, looks at the way fossil fuels defines life in public and private, shaping the very way we tell stories.

Sep 26, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Jess Bergman

In Search of Self-Destruction on an Oil Rig

In Search of Self-Destruction on an Oil Rig In Search of Self-Destruction on an Oil Rig

Tabitha Lasley’s Sea State is an intimate and blistering memoir of a writer’s life amidst the UK’s offshore natural gas industry.

Feb 3, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Jess Bergman

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