The American writer has published the book ‘What’s Wrong with Men?’ in which she asserts that the actor’s filmography ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...