(Untitled)- July 2, 2008 If Neanderthals reviewed books, as imagined by Eddie Izzard.http://www.bookslut.com/blog/archives/2008_07.php#013088 (Untitled)- July 2, 2008 Jonathan Karp wrote an op-ed for the Washington Post about how we're living in the age of the disposable book. He suspects that after the collapse of the industry, then publishers can get back to producing good works. The Washington Post asked me to write a response, and I did. Instead, publishers seem to be taking the music industry's lead on how to respond to this whole online thing, which goes something like this: "LA LA LA, I CAN'T HEAR YOU." And no, mailing every book you produce to a...http://www.bookslut.com/blog/archives/2008_07.php#013087 (Untitled)- July 1, 2008 A male poet who has been reviewed on Bookslut can effectively consider the magazines founder Jessa Crispin, a slut for his book. He can, if he wants, begin thinking about other women readers of his in that same way as well, as his personal booksluts, metaphorically fucked by his every word. How on earth does this pass for sexual or intellectual liberation for women Andrea Dworkin wrote, The pornographic conception of female power is fundamental to the anti-feminism of sexual-liberation...http://www.bookslut.com/blog/archives/2008_07.php#013086 (Untitled)- July 1, 2008 Sticky Pages You Don’t Know Me: A Citizen’s Guide to Republican Family Values by Win McCormack is really great bathroom reading. Organized alphabetically by topic, which range from the curious (Falafel) to the depraved (Beastiality -- that one was committed by Neal Horsley who started a website “advocating the murder of abortion doctors and imprisoning homosexuals”), this book is the perfect reminder that the people who are the loudest anti-sex crusaders are often..http://www.bookslut.com/blog/archives/2008_07.php#013085 (Untitled)- July 1, 2008 In this interview at Comics Reporter about her book What It Is, the great Lynda Barry reveals the startling, disturbing, depressing reason that it was published by Drawn & Quarterly: Well, in my situation, until Drawn & Quarterly came along, I couldn't find a publisher who was interested in my work at all. There was no one.http://www.bookslut.com/blog/archives/2008_07.php#013083 |