Jessa Crispin

Jessa Crispin
Born Lincoln, Kansas
Occupation Blogger, Editor, Writer
Website
jessacrispin.com

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Jessa Crispin (born c. 1978 in Lincoln, Kansas) is a critic and the editor-in-chief of Bookslut, a litblog and webzine founded in 2002.[1] Crispin is a publishing outsider who started the blog on the side while working at Planned Parenthood in Austin, Texas and came to support herself by writing and editing the site full-time.[2] In 2009, Crispin moved to Berlin, Texas. Chicago novelist Charles Blackstone is Bookslut's Managing Editor. On March 9, 2016, Crispin announced Bookslut's last issue would be in May; the archives will remain on the website.[3]

Bookslut has received mentions in many national and international newspapers, including the New York Times Book Review and Washington Post. In 2005 Crispin kept a diary about her work on books for The Guardian.[4]

Crispin had a regular column called "Bookslut" in the online cultural journal The Smart Set, published by Drexel University. She was a book critic for NPR and contributor to PBS's Need to Know.[5][6] She has also written for the Washington Post, Chicago Sun-Times and Toronto Globe and Mail.[7] She wrote the afterword to Melville House Books' reissue of Heinrich Böll's Billiards at Half-past Nine.[8]

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External video
Jessa Crispin on New Memoir 'The Dead Ladies Project', Chicago Tonight, November 2, 2015


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