Has anyone done more in the past six years to foster reading than Bookslut founder Jessa Crispin? What started as a blog and monthly magazine written and edited on the clock at Planned Parenthood has grown into a full-time gig that leaves Crispin plenty of time to read, to write about reading, and to endure dreadful publishing events filled with . . .
By now everyone knows that the Obama cartoon on the cover of the current New Yorker has ignited a firestorm. I’ve tended to write the thing off as failed satire of the kind that proliferates nowadays: unfocused, simultaneously predictable and overreaching, ultimately resulting in no point being made — except, of course, that the creator is terribly knowing and clever . . .
The Cartoon Lounge interviews Emily Flake. Previously: a talk with Achewood creator Chris Onstad. (Via.)
Between praise from Jessa & Carrie, and now this interview with Sarah Hall herself, I’m ashamed not to have read Daughters of the North yet.
New Yorker writer Jill Lepore investigates the powerful children’s librarian who tried to scuttle E.B. White’s Stuart Little. (See also.)