poets are both clean and warm

Driving home from work tonight, I was listening to NPR and it got to the "radio essay" point in the show. I was about to change stations but stopped when I heard the essayist was Hollis Gillespie. I don't expect much from ATC essays but I read and enjoyed Gillespie's book, Bleachy-Haired Honky Bitch (thanks Pru!) It's a collection of pieces about life on the artsier, fringier, sketchier sides of Atlanta. So anyway, the radio piece wasn't all that. Or rather it was about what I expected, a toned-down, NPR-ized version of Gillespie's style. But at the end the announcer said that Gillespie was the author of Tales from a Bad Neighborhood. Well, no, that's the subtitle. Sorta like introducing Tolkein as the author of There and Back Again. The title of the book is Bleachy-Haired Honky Bitch. I wonder which word is NPR-unsafe, bitch or honky?