Cultural critic Jessa Crispin has long been an astute appreciator of the intersection of popular culture and contemporary ...

While rewatching 1992 erotic thriller “Basic Instinct” in advance of its 30th anniversary re-release, culture critic Jessa ...

Jessa Crispin's 'Dead Ladies Project,' part travelogue and part literary criticism, ultimately asks whether art can save a life ...

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Crispin spoke to Vulture about her decision to shut down the site, and as the headline — “Lit-Blog Pioneer Jessa Crispin Closes Bookslut, Does Not Bite Tongue” — promises, she does not ...

In role after role as the 20th century lurched to its end, Douglas acted out the confusion, frustration and anger of white ...

Powered by strong opinions and sharp wit, Jessa Crispin's web site has become a must-read for book lovers.

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 she says comes out in a skeptical half-drawl.

I don’t have the background people in publishing have,” literary blogger Jessa Crispin freely admits. “Bookslut is on the outside: we’re not located in New York, we’re not print, and we ...

International literary critic Jessa Crispin–once a frequent reviewer of books on "Chicago Tonight" as the author of the online magazine Bookslut–has written her first book, a memoir.

“Perhaps the suicidal impulse was correct,” Jessa Crispin muses at the start of her genre-defying memoir-travelogue. “But it wasn’t my physical life that needed to be destro… ...