Review: Expletive Deleted edited by Jen Jordan

Today, in January Magazine’s crime fiction section, contributing editor Jim Winter reviews Expletive Deleted edited by Jen Jordan. Says Winter:

I won’t say that other word. You know the one. The queen mother of all swear words. The most versatile, yet most feared, word in the entire English language. Of all the seven words on George Carlin’s list, all but two have been said on television without reproach. Of that remaining pair, one is a variant of this one word, a word only once said on television without repercussions.

Oh, people try to get around it. The say “freaking” or “friggin’” or “fudge.” Battlestar Galactica flaunts the taboo, however, using the aforementioned “frack” as forcefully as this forbidden word, and with just as many variations. It’s as though that series’ writers are telling the Federal Communications Commission and the prudes of society to…

Well…

Well, to frack off, to put it not so mildly.

The full review is here.