Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Polar Bears & Publishing

You have to love the literature-savvy Jessa Crispin for founding a site titled Bookslut.com

Recent features include a look at the proliferation of polar bears on eco-book & magazine covers .

It all started with that little cub Knut; check out Annie Liebowitz's cover shot for Vanity Fair's Green issue of the particularly irresistible bear on a melting ice floe with Leonardo di Caprio: view


Meanwhile, fellow Booksluts will enjoy the editor's entertaining account of being at the London Book Fair; three days of earnest discussion on the future of the book, or how to make publishing sexy, in between her desperate search for a cup of coffee for less than four pounds, or a stiff drink. more

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Booksluts are great.

And even better, you prompted me to follow up on one of their recent reviews about the controversy over Nim Chimpsky, a chimp bred with Chompskian inspiration. R.I.P Nim. I didn't know about the new book about him -thanks blogger J.C!