WELCOME TO THE NYT, BITCH? The New York Times has covered chess competitor Jennifer Shahade and her book Chess Bitch: Women in the Ultimate Intellectual Sport but shied away from printing the book's title, according to this press release from Silman-James Press. (Thanks to the Publishers Lunch dietetic email for the lead.)
Strangely enough, a search at the Times website calls forth numerous citations of the word bitch. Plus, the query triggered an ad with the copy "F U C K Items Unique and affordable memorabilia. Search for F U C K now!"
How could I resist? The search for F U C K led me here.
The blurb for Chess Bitch at Amazon includes this Yoko Ono quotation: "One woman’s fascinating true story of the life of a champion chess player. All women should take up the challenge and pick up a board! Chess anyone?"
Here's a Yoko Ono chess sculpture at the LongHouse Reserve.
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2 comments:
Oh, F-ing A, when will the sanitization end?
Under normal circumstances, "Chess Bitch" wouldn't be a blockbuster. Gosh, if every person interested in the rough-and-tumble, blood-splattering world of professional chess bought the book, that's 84 copies right there. Maybe 85 if Bobby Fischer could scrape together $24 and 10 minutes of interest in anyone else but himself. But the New York Times ruckus over "the-word-that-rhymes-with-witch" might actually cause a huge rush at the Helsinki Barnes&Noble. My god, Oprah might even pick it for her book club!
OK, I have a new book coming out next year from New Horizon Press. Right now, the title is "FALL: An Intimate Crime Story." I'm thinking ... maybe a new title would be in order ... something profane. Just think of the press it'd get if I simply used the other F-word! Holy s**t!
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