Istanbul reading diary
I was asked by a publication to keep a reading diary for four days, and those days happened to be while I was in Istanbul. The woman I spoke with… Read more »
Jessa Crispin
Jessa Crispin is the founder of Bookslut, one of the country’s first book blogs, and the author of the recently released The Dead Ladies Project: Exiles, Expats, and Ex-Countries (University of Chicago Press). Her book Why I Am Not a Feminist: A Feminist Manifesto is forthcoming from Melville House.
Jessa Crispin in Jerusalem: The right to remain silent?
It wasn’t that I got pulled out of the El Al security line, escorted to the side to be more thoroughly searched and interrogated by a supervisor that bothered me.… Read more »
On pandering … and exclusivity
Literary critic (and forthcoming Melville House author) Jessa Crispin mentioned to us a piece she’d written recently that a webzine had assigned to her but then, for reasons that are unclear, killed. We thought it… Read more »