Ben Blatt

Ben Blatt is a former staff writer for Slate and The Harvard Lampoon who has taken his fun approach to data journalism to topics such as Seinfeld, mapmaking, The Beatles, and Jeopardy! He is the author of Nabokovs Favorite Word Is Mauve and, with Eric Brewster, the coauthor of I Dont Care if We Never Get Back, which follows the duos quest to go on the mathematically optimal baseball road trip, traveling 20,000 miles to a game in all thirty ballparks in thirty days without planes. Blatts work...See more

Ben Blatt is a former staff writer for Slate and The Harvard Lampoon who has taken his fun approach to data journalism to topics such as Seinfeld, mapmaking, The Beatles, and Jeopardy! He is the author of Nabokovs Favorite Word Is Mauve and, with Eric Brewster, the coauthor of I Dont Care if We Never Get Back, which follows the duos quest to go on the mathematically optimal baseball road trip, traveling 20,000 miles to a game in all thirty ballparks in thirty days without planes. Blatts work has also been published in The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, and Deadspin. See less