http://www.bookslut.com/blog/ en-us jessa@bookslut.com 2008-05-16T09:03:04-06:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.bookslut.com/blog/archives/2008_05.php ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive presents Kay Nielsen's illustrations from The Twelve Dancing Princesses and Other Fairy Tales.... 12884@http://www.bookslut.com/blog/ 2008-05-16T09:03:04-06:00 http://www.bookslut.com/blog/archives/2008_05.php The New York Review of Magazines ignores Christopher Hitchens's politics for a minute and focuses on his book criticism.... 12883@http://www.bookslut.com/blog/ 2008-05-16T08:50:57-06:00 http://www.bookslut.com/blog/archives/2008_05.php The Art of Manliness has compiled a list of 100 books that will turn you into a man. Meanwhile, Salon's Broadsheet blog is shocked -- shocked! -- that there are only three women on the list. Meanwhile, Neil Oliver cuts... 12882@http://www.bookslut.com/blog/ 2008-05-16T08:09:56-06:00 http://www.bookslut.com/blog/archives/2008_05.php If you can read another article about the future of reading, the Columbia Journalism Review one is not bad. Though Amazon has transformed the way we purchase content, its business model has always contained a crucial inefficiency: Amazon gives you... 12881@http://www.bookslut.com/blog/ 2008-05-16T08:01:55-06:00 http://www.bookslut.com/blog/archives/2008_05.php It explains a lot, really: I can't pretend to be much of a judge of poetry: I'm an English teacher, not a homosexual. Eavan Boland asks, Who exactly is a poet? How do we recognize one, even when circumstances seem... 12880@http://www.bookslut.com/blog/ 2008-05-15T23:21:22-06:00 http://www.bookslut.com/blog/archives/2008_05.php I don't really have anything to say about the Observer's "Are Women Better Writers Than Men?" except holy fuck, the crazies come out in the comments section. Just for future reference, listing the number of awards male writers have won... 12879@http://www.bookslut.com/blog/ 2008-05-15T11:14:35-06:00 http://www.bookslut.com/blog/archives/2008_05.php Ursula K. LeGuin, whose new book Lavinia is sitting in my to be read pile/bookshelf, is interviewed at ABC Radio National's Book Show. (They must have worked on the name of that show for ages.)... 12878@http://www.bookslut.com/blog/ 2008-05-15T09:08:19-06:00 http://www.bookslut.com/blog/archives/2008_05.php Susan Faludi and Barbara Ehrenreich on the nastiness of Hillary Clinton.... 12876@http://www.bookslut.com/blog/ 2008-05-15T07:40:26-06:00 http://www.bookslut.com/blog/archives/2008_05.php I was filling out a little Q&A the other day for someone's blog, and one of the questions was "What about Jessa Crispin would surprise Bookslut's readers?" Jesus. How the hell should I know? I went with my previous time... 12875@http://www.bookslut.com/blog/ 2008-05-15T06:25:43-06:00 http://www.bookslut.com/blog/archives/2008_05.php James Meek, author of the fucking fantastic We Are Now Beginning Our Descent, wonders where all of the present day fiction is. It is seemly and good to reimagine the second world war in fiction. It is seemly and good... 12874@http://www.bookslut.com/blog/ 2008-05-15T06:18:21-06:00 http://www.bookslut.com/blog/archives/2008_05.php South African author Henrietta Rose-Innes was previously selected by JM Coetzee as the winner of the 2007 HSBC/SA PEN award, and her winning story, 'Poison', is now shortlisted for the Caine Prize. The Caine, worth £10,000, gets called "the African... 12873@http://www.bookslut.com/blog/ 2008-05-15T05:51:18-06:00 http://www.bookslut.com/blog/archives/2008_05.php Kurt Vonnegut’s posthumous collection, Armageddon in Retrospect, released last month, features the classic author-drawn caricature on the cover. How can you not love famous figures who draw self-deprecating self-portraits (Vonnegut, John Lennon, Alfred Hitchcock, and errr... Schoenberg)? I conversed via... 12872@http://www.bookslut.com/blog/ 2008-05-14T08:36:31-06:00 http://www.bookslut.com/blog/archives/2008_05.php My favorite footnote of all time comes from Mary Roach's Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex: During intravaginal stimulation,* perivaginal muscular contractions of about .8-second duration and about one second apart were palpated. *Finger-fucking.... 12871@http://www.bookslut.com/blog/ 2008-05-14T07:54:04-06:00 http://www.bookslut.com/blog/archives/2008_05.php Jonathan Yardley takes a second look at John Steinbeck's Cannery Row. (Thanks to Rolf for the link.) The short answer is that the good humor is still there, but the book itself now seems strained, dated and not really very... 12870@http://www.bookslut.com/blog/ 2008-05-14T07:01:46-06:00 http://www.bookslut.com/blog/archives/2008_05.php This week's Guardian Digested Read: The Front by Patricia Cornwell. Win turns to Lamont as the others leave. "Don't hold out on me again," he snaps. "So you feel guilty that you inherited millions from your father, who I shot... 12869@http://www.bookslut.com/blog/ 2008-05-14T06:49:47-06:00