Bookslut Moving to Berlin
-- Publishers Weekly, 4/27/2009 3:56:00 PM
Jessa Crispin, the founder and managing editor of Bookslut.com, the online literary magazine famous for its erudite yet irreverent reviews, author interviews and feature articles, announced on her blog today that she is moving from Chicago to Berlin July 1 for personal reasons. While Crispin will not give up ownership of Bookslut and will remain editor-in-chief, her assistant, Caroline Eick, will become the new managing editor, in charge of handling the books chosen for review by Bookslut's stable of writers, training new reviewers, and running Bookslut.com's Chicago reading series, held each month at the Hopleaf bar in the Andersonville neighborhood.Launched in Austin in 2002 and based in Chicago since 2003, Bookslut.com is read by approximately 10,000 unique readers each day. Crispin intends to continue writing from Berlin for Bookslut.com's blog, as well as for NPR and possibly the Smart Set.
