Sun Times Article on Bookslut
July 31st, 2005By far one of my favorite literary blogs, Bookslut is the focus of an article in the Chicago Sun Times:
“This website — Crispin says it’s visited each day by 7,000 to 8,000 people — fills a sizable niche as an alternative to market-driven book review sections that focus on mass-audience authors. Instead of dishing on pop novelists such as Terry McMillan and Robert James Waller, Bookslut does lengthy reviews and interviews of writers such as David Markson, author of the experimental novel Wittgenstein’s Mistress and of Lee Gutkind, guru of the “creative nonfiction” genre. They are hardly household names but still are important figures in the American literary world.”
“Bookslut is “filling a void,” declares Annie Tully, associate producer at the Chicago Humanities Festival and one of the site’s many bright young reviewers. “While [Crispin] will mention bigger books here and there in her blog — when she loves anything like [Philip] Roth’s book last year or [Kazuo] Ishiguro’s recent one — she’s not shy about it. Her articles, reviews and interviews often introduce me to writers I don’t know but should.”
Here’s something I didn’t know about Jessa. She was once a librarian for the Sexuality Resource Center at Planned Parenthood. Suweeeeeeet!