Jessa Crispin

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Jessa Crispin
File:Jessa Crispin.jpeg
Born1978 (age 47–48)
Lincoln, Kansas, U.S.
OccupationBlogger, editor, writer
Website
jessacrispin.com
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Jessa Crispin (born c. 1978 in Lincoln, Kansas) is a critic, author, feminist, and the editor-in-chief of Bookslut, a litblog and webzine founded in 2002.[1] She has published five books, most recently What is Wrong with Men: Patriarchy, the Crisis of Masculinity, and How (of Course) Michael Douglas Films Explain Everything (2025).[2]

Early life

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Crispin is from Lincoln, Kansas; she has described both her hometown and upbringing in her family as very conservative.[3] She attended Baker University in Kansas for two years before leaving without a degree.[4][5]

Literary career

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Crispin began her literary career as publishing outsider who started her blog Bookslut on the side while working at Planned Parenthood in Austin, Texas. She eventually came to support herself by writing and editing the site full-time.[6] Bookslut ran for 14 years, with the last issue announced in May 2016.[7] Bookslut received mentions in many national and international newspapers, including The New York Times Book Review and The Washington Post.

In 2005, Crispin kept a diary about her work on books for The Guardian.[8] Crispin had a regular column 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.[9][10] She has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, Chicago Sun-Times and The Globe and Mail, among other publications.[9][11] She wrote the afterword to Melville House Books' reissue of Heinrich Böll's Billiards at Half-Past Nine.[12]

Personal life

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In 2018, Crispin married with boyfriend Nicolás Rodríguez Melo, partly in order to sponsor his visa,[13] and interviewed him for her Public Intellectual podcast about the performance of masculinity and femininity.[14] She has criticized married women in the past: "Marriage’s history is about treating women as property, and by being married you’re legitimising that history."[15]

Works

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  • The Dead Ladies Project: Exiles, Expats, and Ex-Countries (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2015, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).)[16][17][18]
  • The Creative Tarot: A Modern Guide to an Inspired Life (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2016, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).)[19]
  • Why I Am Not a Feminist: A Feminist Manifesto (New York: Melville House, 2017, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).)[2]
  • My Three Dads: Patriarchy on the Great Plains (University of Chicago Press, 2022, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).)
  • What is Wrong with Men: Patriarchy, the Crisis of Masculinity, and How (of Course) Michael Douglas Films Explain Everything (Pantheon, 2025, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).) [20][21]

References

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  7. ^ Burbank, Megan (March 9, 2026), "A Farewell to Bookslut, a Lit Blog After My Own Heart" Archived September 1, 2023, at the Wayback Machine, The Portland Mercury. Retrieved March 11, 2016.
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External videos
video icon Jessa Crispin on New Memoir 'The Dead Ladies Project', Chicago Tonight, November 2, 2015

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