November 2017

Welcome to the October/Desiring Motherhood issue of Literary Mama! This month, many of our writers share stories about whether to have children or not, adoption, infertility, miscarriage, and child loss.…

Other reviews have mentioned a Gatsby-esque quality to Wonders, citing certain Roaring Twenties-style parties and a gangster figure not unlike Meyer Wolfsheim. I recognized these as well, but the similarities…

I started off as a secret writer: I thought of myself as a writer and yet I was too scared to write. It was a funny disconnect. For me it’s…

Mommy takes a long swig of cocktail, always a chance for blurt, a revelation somehow of something we never wanted.

Mayer, too, suffered from angst. But what’s refreshing, even radical, for twenty-first century mothers who have been pitted against each other and against every false ideal of motherhood, is this:…

I’m trying to open a window into my soul, to show how it feels to know that this activity of nursing my daughter is also an activity of becoming more…

Whether you seek a book that depicts a fervent desire for motherhood or an ambivalent approach, our colleagues have you covered this month with an exploration of our annual October…

So often in motherhood we are faced with mysteries so much larger than our capacity to understand, and yet we try to explain these mysteries to our children as best…

Our mother never had you. Still wanting, she had another and another and another.

you are flat I didn’t expect paper thin a pulsing strawberry at Christmas touch pads forming your fingertips

I used to count those babies like I could control How I played the Game of Life I would stick one, two, three, however many Blue or pink plastic figures…