Bookslut archived columns go back to 2002 and it is easy to get caught up in the back issues. It is a webzine and blog that reviews books, and publishes essays on topics in current literature. A great space to gather directions for reading less conventional titles that slip away from the mainstream, making them difficult to find. Some of their recent reviews include The Discreet Pleasures of Rejection, French author Martin Page’s second novel; the first novel of Adam Haslett entitled Union Atlantic; and the Three Novellas by Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard.
There are reviews for more than just fiction. Bookslut makes an effort to include reviews of most any genre of published text, favoring the independent publishers, including even cookbooks. The interviews with writers such as Nate Pritts, the poet Zachary German, and one of Black Clock’s editors Bruce Bauman are insightful and fresh takes on the writing process and the literary world of work and publishing. There are essays on the industry, cover art, and irreverent takes on literary industry propaganda such as a reformed “summer reading list.”
Full of great links, more material than one could possibly read, Bookslut is one to bookmark.
by Sara Gerot
a writer and an Associate Editor of Black Clock
