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 »

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 »

Nine years after the New York Times debuted ArtsBeat, its blog devoted to online cultural coverage, the paper has announced its retirement. Yesterday, in a 23,231st and final post, Times assistant… Read more »

Chances are, since we’ve found you here, you already know and love Bookslut, the lit blog founded in 2002 by writer and critic Jessa Crispin. Which is why it pains… Read more »

“If you look back at the books that won the Pulitzer or the National Book Award, it is always the wrong book.” This Monday on the Bookslut blog Jessa Crispin… Read more »