The editor of Bookslut, which shut down last week, talks to the Guardian about the current state of American literature and its attendant frustrations
A couple of weeks ago, Jessa Crispin shut her longstanding book review site, Bookslut, down. Fourteen years after she’d founded it, she told me at a Brooklyn coffee shop last week, she was feeling like she could not keep up the administrative duties required. She was personally exhausted, too.
“There’s only so long that you can be the crank, before that’s just who you are,” Crispin said. “Where you’re wearing eight hats at the same time and three coats, drinking malt and yelling through the window of the Greenlight Bookstore [in Fort Greene, Brooklyn], ‘You’re all a bunch of frauds!’”
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