where the grrrls are
First off, just let me say thanks for all the great book recommendations. I've filled up both my powells.com and my bookins.com wishlists, plus ordered a few things I just couldn't wait for. And let me tell you, I wasn't really looking for a strategy to get folks to de-lurk, but it sure worked–I can't remember the last post I wrote that got 20 comments in 2 days.
I also finished Never Let Me Go this morning.
Loved. It.
I wanted to return the favor, and when I got home Friday night, I found the perfect thing to recommend. My beloved Bitch magazine is turning 10 this year, and to commemorate themselves, the editors are publishing an anthology this summer. I have read every issue of this magazine since the first one–I think I found it at Cody's Books, on Telegraph Ave. in Berkeley. In fact, I once even got a snippy email from the publisher, Lisa Jervis, when I complained that I fell off their subscription list after moving to the East Coast, which I now wish I had saved–I was probably one of like 50 subscribers at the time, or else why else would the publisher have been emailing me?
For those of you who don't get enough snarky, feminist commentary on pop culture on the internet, this is your magazine. Bitch was the first thing I read that made me realize I wasn't the only woman over 19 watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The magazine that introduced me to Television Without Pity, and Sarah Jones, and LunaPads. Sure, it's not always SFW (or for leaving on the coffee table at home, now that I have kids), with its sex toy ads on the back cover. But it is always smart, and often hilariously funny.
It's the one magazine we get (and we get a LOT of magazines) that I will read cover-to-cover, the day it arrives, and then spend the next three months moping around wishing I hadn't read it so fast. The one magazine to which I have ever written a letter to the editor. The one magazine that I lend to friends, to turn them into Bitch-junkies too. I'm definitely buying this anthology, and you should too.
