Jessica Crispin, the founder and editor of the popular book blog Bookslut that recently shut down, thinks that most book criticism is boring.
In an interview with The Guardian, Crispin revealed that she shut down the site because she was too exhausted and didn’t want to become the crank that she had become known as. Still, in the interview Crispin compared The New Yorker to a dentist magazine and called out The Paris Review for not living up to its potential. Here is an excerpt:
“Everything is so precarious, and none of us can get the work and the attention or the time that we need, and so we all have to be in job-interview mode all of the time, just in case somebody wants to hire us,” Crispin added. “So we’re not allowed to say, ‘The Paris Review is boring as fuck!’ Because what if the Paris Review is just about to call us?” The freedom from such questions is something Crispin personally cherishes.