Author Jessa Crispin has a new book about masculinity, employing Michael Douglas's career as an interesting hook.

In a sharp new book, Jessa Crispin uses the actor’s career to explore, and complicate, the “crisis of masculinity.” ...

Jessa Crispin’s new book, “The Dead Ladies Project,” opens in the wake of a suicide threat. Two police officers stand in the author’s kitchen preparing to take her to the emergency room ...

Sean Illing is the host of The Gray Area podcast. “Making feminism a universal pursuit might look like a good thing,” author Jessa Crispin writes, “but in truth it progresses, and I think ...

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In the beginning of the bookish Internet, Jessa Crispin made waves with her irreverent online literary magazine, “Bookslut.” She’s gone on to publish another magazine, “Spolia,” as well ...

This March, Bookslut editor and founder Jessa Crispin announced that the site’s May issue would be its last. Since 2002 — eons ago in internet time — Bookslut has published smart ...

A little etymology can be helpful in approaching Jessa Crispin’s latest book, “Why I Am Not a Feminist: A Feminist Manifesto.” The word “manifesto” arrived in English by way of Italian a ...

In late October, on the New York uberblog Gawker, a young writer named Jessa Crispin became the latest target of author and critic Dale Peck’s famously vicious verbal abuse. Peck, the subject of ...

Among those on the other side is the writer Jessa Crispin, who believes that the push to make feminism universally palatable has negated the meaning of the ideology writ large. Crispin has written ...

And for telling people about those books. Jessa Crispin is 24 years old and a college dropout. She works by day as a Planned Parenthood fundraiser. She is smart, very smart, and nearly everything ...

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