Book-Hot-Or-Not: More On The Sexual Politics Of Author Photos

Gawker readers will remember "book hot" author Marisha Pessl — according to a a recent VQR piece, even reviewers are now playing book-hot-or-not.

Gawker readers will remember "book hot" author Marisha Pessl — according to a a recent VQR piece, even reviewers are now playing book-hot-or-not.

She slouched on her dirt brown Levitz couch and read Janet Maslin's compendium of summer "chick lit" novels from the New York Times. She hesitated, her gnawed-on, calloused fingers perched warily atop her PowerBook, and wondered why these quite diverse reads had been lumped together so carelessly. "What does a…