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 Reviews of The Solitary Vice: Against Reading (Los Angeles: Counterpoint, 2008): “The Solitary Vice,” for anyone who's unfamiliar with the phrase, is the best-known Victorian euphemism for masturbation, a habit which, at the time, was widely believed to cause not only physical damage and moral decline in this life, but eternal damnation in the next. This book is about a different solitary vice – the act of reading. "Mikita Brottman is one of us: another victim of the unhealthiest and most solipsistic of media pleasures. In this compelling condemnation of literature, she nonetheless offers us one more reason to pick up a good book--her own." Douglas Rushkoff "The Solitary Vice will make you rethink your own relation to reading. Brottman is wonderful at reminding us what a very complicated act -- of fantasy, recompense, adventurism, and (sometimes) perversity -- reading a book can be." Laura Kipnis Publisher's Weekly Best Books of the Year, PW Weekly, Nov 3, 2008 Roundup: Non Fiction, Bob Minzesheimer, USA Today, May 8, 2008. Book Review, Harvey Freedenberg, Shelf Awareness, April 1 2008. Yesterday's Paper, interview with Caitlin McRae, Nerve.com, May 2008. Mikita Brottman: The Solitary Vice, Suzanne Kleid, KQED Arts, March 25, 2008. Review of "The Solitary Vice," Cup O'Books, June 11 2008. Fully Booked, Jessa Crispin, The Smart Set, May 14, 2008. Recommended Reading, Bethanne Patrick, Publisher's Weekly, March 27, 2008. The Solitary Vice, David L. Ulin, L.A. Times, May 4, 2008. Now Read This, interview with Heather Harris, Baltimore City Paper, June 4, 2008. Against Reading, Rhian Ellis, Ward Six, Friday March 7, 2008. Don't Read Too Much... interview with Geeta Sharma-Jensen, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, March 23, 2008. War of Words, interview with Charles Taylor, Boston Phoenix, April 15, 2008. You'll Go Blind Doing That, Jason Shamai, San Francisco Bay Guardian, April 21, 2008. The Solitary Vice (review), Wheeler Winston Dixon, Prairie Schooner, 83.1, Spring 2009. 
AUTHORED BY MIKITA BROTTMAN(All reviews published in PopMatters unless otherwise stated) Sway, Zachary Lazar, Little, Brown & Co., January 2008 This Book Contains Graphic Language: Comics as Literature, Rocco Versaci, Continuum, December 2007. The Executioner's Bible: The Story of Every British Hangman of the Twentieth Century, Steve Fielding, Blake, 2008. Sleaze Artists: Cinema at the Margins of Taste, Style and Politics, ed. Jeffrey Sconce, Duke, December 2007. The Gothic: Documents of Contemporary Art, ed. Gilda Williams, MIT/Whitechapel, October 2007. Hotel Theory Wayne Koestenbaum, Soft Skull: New York, 2007. The Red Parts: A Memoir Maggie Nelson, Free Press: New York, 2007. The Evolving Brain: The Known and the Unknown R. Grant Steen, Prometheus Books: New York, 2007. Rough Guide to Unexplained Phenomena, ed. John Michell and Bob Rickard, Rough Guide Publications, London: 2007. Becoming Eichmann: The Life and Crimes of a "Desk Murderer", David Ceserani, Da Capo,April 2007. Interfictions: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing, Delia Sherman and Theodora Goss, Small Beer Press, April 2007 Tabloid
Prodigy , Marlise
Elizabeth Kast,
Running Press, 2007.
Goth's Wan Stamina Michael Bibby and Lauren Goodlad, eds., Goth: Undead Subculture, Duke University Press, 2007 Goth, Catherine Spooner, Reaktion Books: London, 2007. (Chronicle of Higher Education June 15 2007). New Cultural Studies: Adventures in Theory Gary Hall & Claire Birchall, eds., University of Georigia Press, 2007 The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life Robert Goolrick, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2007 The Wow Climax:
Tracing the
Emotional Impact of Popular Culture Henry Jenkins, NYU Press, 2007
Found Polaroids, ed. Jason Bitner, QuackMedia, November 2006 Freud's Wizard:
Ernest Jones
and the Transformation of Psychoanalysis Brenda
Maddox, Da Capo, March 2007
Book Round-Up for 2006, PopMatters, January 2007 Knitting Under the Influence, Claire Lazebnik, 5 Spot, September 2006 Housekeeping vs. The
Dirt Nick
Hornby, Believer
Books, September 2006
Not in Kansas Anymore, Christine Wicker, HarperSanFrancisco, October 2006 The Ruins, Scott Smith, Knopf, July 2006. What is the What? Dave Eggers, McSweeney's, October 2006. 13 Ways of Looking at the Novel, Jane Smiley, Faber & Faber, August 2006. Drugs Are Nice: A Post Punk Memoir, Lisa Carver, Soft Skull, October 2005. Rain Village, Carolyn Turgeon, Unbridled Books, November 2006. Notice, Heather Lewis, Journal of Sexuality & Culture, 2004. The Surrender, Toni Bentley, Journal of Sexuality & Culture, 2004. The Red Parts: A Memoir, Maggie Nelson, Free Press, 2005. FILMS |
