Author name: Kassia Krozser

Litigation: It’s The American Way

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We have a former boss who liked to say that litigation kept America working — this was, somehow, supposed to bolster our spirits when Friday afternoons rolled around and, just as visions of going home and starting the weekend danced through our head, an attorney called to say he’d “forgotten” that he needed this, this, and this first thing Monday morning. It was also supposed to bolster our spirits when Monday mornings rolled around and the meeting we’d spent far too many hours preparing for was cancelled.

Publishers and Editors

The Truth About Celebrity Books, Or Why Publishers Are Evil Geniuses

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Though it won’t come as a surprise to anyone, our least favored reading material is a celebrity biography/autobiography/ghostwritten claptrap. Very few of these people are fascinating enough to sustain a feature-length article, much less an entire book. Why publishers continue to throw good money after bad books confuses us. Oh right. Money. Power. Fame. Fortune. A lot of quick sales with very little effort. By most accounts, celebrity books lose money. But just enough of them make just enough of a profit that publishers continue to throw unseemly advances in the path of the latest famous person. What publishers don’t

Square Pegs

Cranky Post About Sex And Politics

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The Village Voice has a fascinating article about the rise of yaoi — fairly graphic male-on-male manga — and how it resonates with straight American women. This isn’t exactly breaking news by any stretch of the imagination; there is a growing group of women who consider themselves part of the romance genre who write yaoi, and given that there’s an adherence to some of romance’s conventions, this makes sense. What makes this article so interesting to us is not that there is an appetite for this type of manga in this nation — it is the clear delineation between fantasy

Square Pegs
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