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Bookslut Is Dead. Long Live Bookslut

May 4, 2016 by hubs Leave a Comment

RIP Bookslut. It has published its final issue. I’m sad to see it go. I was never a heavy reader the site but I always had an affinity for it. See, my foray into the blogging world started fourteen years ago with a book blog that started just a month after Bookslut. So I have always considered Bookslut to be a much more worthwhile, articulate, entertaining and much smarter stepsister-blog to my little “I Love You Too” book blog.

There is an excellent interview in Vulture with Jessa Crispin, the site’s founder and editor. Here’s a favorite pull-quote to get you salivating:

There’s always space to do whatever you want. You won’t get as much attention, but fuck attention. Fight for integrity. Now everyone has a TinyLetter instead of a blog. As soon as the first writer got a book deal for a TinyLetter, everyone’s TinyLetter just became book-deal bait, written the same way. This weird conformity just takes over as soon as the possibility of money or access or respectability comes up. That’s disappointing.

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Top 10 Most Banned Books: 2014

September 29, 2015 by hubs 3 Comments

For the past many years, during Banned Books Weak, I have put together a list of the top ten most banned books of the previous year. Out of 311 challenges (a slight increase from the 307 challenges reported in 2013) as reported by the Office for Intellectual Freedom, here are the top ten:

2014

  1. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie
    Reasons: anti-family, cultural insensitivity, drugs/alcohol/smoking, gambling, offensive language, sex education, sexually explicit, unsuited for age group, violence. Additional reasons: “depictions of bullying”
  2. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood, by Marjane Satrapi
    Reasons: Anti-family, homosexuality, political viewpoint, religious viewpoint, unsuited for age group. Additional reasons: “promotes the homosexual agenda”
  3. And Tango Makes Three, by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell
    Reasons: Nudity, offensive language, religious viewpoint, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group
  4. The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison
    Reasons: Sexually explicit, unsuited for age group. Additional reasons: “contains controversial issues”
  5. It’s Perfectly Normal (The Family Library), by Robie H. Harris
    Reasons: Nudity, sex education, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group. Additional reasons: “alleges it child pornography”
  6. Saga, Vol. 1, by Brian K. Vaughan
    Reasons: Anti-Family, nudity, offensive language, sexually explicit, and unsuited for age group.
  7. The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini
    Reasons: Offensive language, unsuited to age group, violence
  8. The Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky
    Reasons: drugs/alcohol/smoking, homosexuality, offensive language, sexually explicit, unsuited for age group. Additional reasons: “date rape and masturbation”
  9. A Stolen Life: A Memoir, by Jaycee Dugard
    Reasons: drugs/alcohol/smoking, offensive language, sexually explicit, and unsuited for age group
  10. Drama, by Raina Telgemeier
    Reasons: sexually explicit

Click these links if you are looking for the top 10 lists for previous years with easy links to Amazon: 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001.

Additionally, in 2010, I put together a list of the 100 Most Banned & Challenged Books Of The Decade by aggregating several lists from the American Library Association.

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Mad Men Reading List

April 3, 2015 by hubs Leave a Comment

The New York Public Library (NYPL) has created a Mad Men Reading List, a collection of 25 titles read by the main characters during the course of the series. These titles are a great way to gain insight into the social and cultural eras in which the series takes place.

DON DRAPER’S PICKS

  • Exodus by Leon Uris
    (Episode 106 “Babylon”)
  • The Best of Everything by Rona Jaffe
    (Episode 106 “Babylon”)
  • Meditations in an Emergency by Frank O’Hara
    (Episode 201 “For Those Who Think Young”)
  • The Sound and the Fury : The Corrected Text with Faulkner’s Appendix by William Faulkner
    (Episode 211 “The Jet Set”)
  • The Chrysanthemum and the Sword by Ruth Benedict
    (Episode 405 “The Chrysanthemum and the Sword”)
  • The Spy Who Came in from the Cold: A George Smiley Novel (George Smiley Novels) by John Le Carre
    (Episode 413 “Tomorrowland”)
  • The Fixer by Bernard Malamud
    (Episode 507 “At the Codfish Ball”)
  • Odds Against by Dick Francis
    (Episode 509 “Dark Shadows”)
  • The Inferno by Dante Alighieri
    (Episode 601-2 “The Doorway”)
  • The Last Picture Show by Larry McMurtry
    (Episode 607 “Man With a Plan”)
  • Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth
    (Episode 704 “The Monolith”)

ROGER STERLING’S PICK

  • Confessions of an Advertising Man by David Ogilvy
    (Episode 307 “Seven Twenty Three”)

JOAN HARRIS’S PICK

  • Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence
    (Episode 103 “Marriage of Figaro”)

BERT COOPER’S PICK

  • Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
    (Episode 108 “The Hobo Code”)

BETTY DRAPER’S PICKS

  • Babylon Revisited: And Other Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald
    (Episode 204 “Three Sundays”)
  • The Group by Mary McCarthy
    (Episode 310 “The Color Blue”)

PETE CAMPBELL’S PICKS

  • The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
    (Episode 508 “Lady Lazarus”)
  • Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
    (Episode 511 “The Other Woman”)

SALLY DRAPER’S PICKS

  • The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
    (Episode 303 “My Old Kentucky Home”)
  • The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pene Du Bois
    (Episode 405 “The Chrysanthemum and the Sword”)
  • Nancy Drew: The Clue of the Black Keys by Carolyn Keene
    (Episode 409 “The Beautiful Girls”)
  • The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander
    (Episode 509 “Dark Shadows”)
  • Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin
    (Episode 608 “The Crash”)

LANE PRYCE’S PICK

  • Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
    (Episode 306 “Guy Walks Into an Advertising Agency”)

HENRY FRANCIS’S PICK

  • Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
    (Episode 306 “Guy Walks Into an Advertising Agency”)

Billy Parrott has also written a more comprehensive blogpost that lists books seen on shelves and lying around on tables during the show.

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Top 10 Most Banned Books: 2013

September 25, 2014 by hubs Leave a Comment

For the past few years, during Banned Books Weak, I have put together a list of the top ten most banned books of the previous year. Out of 307 challenges (a decrease from the 464 challenges reported in 2012) as reported by the Office for Intellectual Freedom, here are the top ten:

2013

  1. Captain Underpants (series), by Dav Pilkey
    Reasons: Offensive language, unsuited for age group, violence
  2. The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison
    Reasons: Offensive language, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group, violence
  3. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie
    Reasons: Drugs/alcohol/smoking, offensive language, racism, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group
  4. Fifty Shades of Grey, by E.L. James
    Reasons: Nudity, offensive language, religious viewpoint, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group
  5. The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins
    Reasons: Religious viewpoint, unsuited to age group
  6. A Bad Boy Can Be Good for A Girl, by Tanya Lee Stone
    Reasons: Drugs/alcohol/smoking, nudity, offensive language, sexually explicit
  7. Looking for Alaska, by John Green
    Reasons: Drugs/alcohol/smoking, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group
  8. The Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky
    Reasons: drugs/alcohol/smoking, homosexuality, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group
  9. Bless Me Ultima, by Rudolfo Anaya
    Reasons: Occult/Satanism, offensive language, religious viewpoint, sexually explicit
  10. Bone (series), by Jeff Smith
    Reasons: Political viewpoint, racism, violence

Click these links if you are looking for the top 10 lists for previous years with easy links to Amazon: 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001.

Additionally, in 2010, I put together a list of the 100 Most Banned & Challenged Books Of The Decade by aggregating several lists from the American Library Association.

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Video Of The 2013 Gävle Goat Going Up In Smoke

January 7, 2014 by hubs Leave a Comment

I am a little late to the show this year but on December 21st the infamously fiery Gävlebocken (Gävle Goat) was once again burnt to smithereens. As per tradition I scraped a live webcam of the blaze and set it to some holiday music for your viewing enjoyment/horror.

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Top 10 Most Banned Books: 2012

September 25, 2013 by hubs 2 Comments

Another year has gone by and it is Banned Books Week once more. I have been listing the top 10 most challenged books annually on my blog since 2009. I’d be remiss not to do it again. 2012 saw an increase in challenged books. Last year there were 464 challenges reported by the Office for Intellectual Freedom (compared to 326 in 2011 and 348 in 2010). You can see the top 10 list below.

2012

  1. Captain Underpants (series), by Dav Pilkey.
    Reasons: Offensive language, unsuited for age group
  2. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie.
    Reasons: Offensive language, racism, sexually explicit, unsuited for age group
  3. Thirteen Reasons Why, by Jay Asher.
    Reasons: Drugs/alcohol/smoking, sexually explicit, suicide, unsuited for age group
  4. Fifty Shades of Grey, by E. L. James.
    Reasons: Offensive language, sexually explicit
  5. And Tango Makes Three, by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson.
    Reasons: Homosexuality, unsuited for age group
  6. The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini.
    Reasons: Homosexuality, offensive language, religious viewpoint, sexually explicit
  7. Looking for Alaska, by John Green.
    Reasons: Offensive language, sexually explicit, unsuited for age group
  8. Scary Stories (series), by Alvin Schwartz
    Reasons: Unsuited for age group, violence
  9. The Glass Castle, by Jeanette Walls
    Reasons: Offensive language, sexually explicit
  10. Beloved, by Toni Morrison
    Reasons: Sexually explicit, religious viewpoint, violence

Click these links if you are looking for the top 10 lists for previous years with easy links to Amazon: 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001.

Additionally, in 2010, I put together a list of the 100 Most Banned & Challenged Books Of The Decade by aggregating several lists from the American Library Association.

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