http://www.bookslut.com/ en-us 2013-05-07T11:53:34+00:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.bookslut.com/fiction/2013_05_020081.php maguire muireann red spectres 20081@http://www.bookslut.com/ fiction 2013-05-07T11:53:34+00:00 http://www.bookslut.com/features/2013_05_020070.php Amy Wilentz was green behind the ears when she first touched down in Port-au-Prince. It was 1985, her first time in the country, and President Jean-Claude Duvalier's last. She was a young journalist, but Haiti in the midst of... 20070@http://www.bookslut.com/ features 2013-05-05T16:56:31+00:00 http://www.bookslut.com/the_forgotten_twentieth_century/2013_05_020078.php No question in criticism is more mysterious than the question of why one writer receives quick recognition and another doesn't -- either at all or until after enduring long obscurity. This was on my mind while I recently reread one... 20078@http://www.bookslut.com/ The Forgotten Twentieth Century 2013-05-05T12:13:27+00:00 http://www.bookslut.com/fiction/2013_05_020077.php faye lyndsay gods of gotham 20077@http://www.bookslut.com/ fiction 2013-05-05T11:12:57+00:00 http://www.bookslut.com/comicbookslut/2013_05_020076.php 1. Taco Head A man with a taco for a head stands at a fast food counter. The kid serving him says “Uh, is that your real -- is that a mask? Ha ha.” Taco Head replies “Yeah. No.... 20076@http://www.bookslut.com/ comicbookslut 2013-05-05T09:56:22+00:00 http://www.bookslut.com/cookbookslut/2013_05_020075.php The big news in food this month is that Michael Pollan, author of Botany of Desire and The Omnivore's Dilemma has a new book coming out. In Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation, Pollan finds himself in middle age, alone... 20075@http://www.bookslut.com/ cookbookslut 2013-05-05T09:49:30+00:00 http://www.bookslut.com/the_bombshell/2013_05_020074.php For my fifteenth birthday my mother gave me Willa Cather's My Ántonia, a novel I devoured and adored. The subject -- the life of immigrant homesteaders in early twenthieth-century rural Nebraska -- was curious and compelling for a girl... 20074@http://www.bookslut.com/ The Bombshell 2013-05-05T09:43:49+00:00 http://www.bookslut.com/fiction/2013_05_020072.php barrett a igoni love is power 20072@http://www.bookslut.com/ fiction 2013-05-05T09:21:20+00:00 http://www.bookslut.com/features/2013_05_020071.php I'm a little self-conscious walking to meet Meg Wolitzer at a café by Grand Central Terminal in New York, and it's entirely my fault. I'm wearing a short, black dress and four-inch heels -- my normal city uniform --... 20071@http://www.bookslut.com/ features 2013-05-04T17:05:41+00:00 http://www.bookslut.com/unamerican/2013_05_020069.php 20069@http://www.bookslut.com/ Unamerican 2013-05-04T15:32:44+00:00 http://www.bookslut.com/thousandfurs/2013_05_020068.php Birthday. I fret over what color to dye my hair. I liked my bits of silver until I saw them in another woman's hair: winter twigs presaging frost, pretty in isolation but there's no such thing as isolation. Besides,... 20068@http://www.bookslut.com/ Thousandfurs 2013-05-04T12:47:00+00:00 http://www.bookslut.com/nonfiction/2013_05_020067.php sycamore mattilda bernstein end of san francisco 20067@http://www.bookslut.com/ nonfiction 2013-05-04T12:08:47+00:00 http://www.bookslut.com/fiction/2013_05_020066.php salter james all that is 20066@http://www.bookslut.com/ fiction 2013-05-04T11:08:25+00:00 http://www.bookslut.com/features/2013_05_020073.php 20073@http://www.bookslut.com/ features 2013-05-04T09:34:47+00:00 http://www.bookslut.com/features/2013_05_020052.php Allow me to start with the simple end: Ru Freeman's On Sal Mal Lane is stupendous. I'll even embellish that verdict and add that it is actually fan-huththa-tastic... the tmetic meaning of which should encourage you to go get... 20052@http://www.bookslut.com/ features 2013-05-04T09:07:06+00:00