Jen Lawrence

My interview with Caitlin Flanagan and review of her book, To Hell with All That: Loving and Loathing Our Inner Housewife, have been posted. If you have any comments, we’d love to read them here.

Ericka Lutz and Marjorie Osterhout have taken on Senior Editor roles at Literary Mama. Ericka is responsible for the content side, bringing to the page the same fresh and bold content you’ve come to expect from Literary Mama. Marjorie will be making the very complicated technical side of running a web site look effortless. Amy […]

A little while, Literary Mama published my review of Darla Shine’s Happy Housewives. I half expected Shine to respond as she had to some of my previous blog posts, but my review was greeted by silence. Perhaps she hadn’t read it. Perhaps she had and was pleased: although I was not a huge fan of […]

Andrea Buchanan (Literary Mama’s Managing Editor who is currently on hiatus) is winding up her blog book tour for It’s a Girl: Women Writers on Raising Daughters. Highlights from the blog tour can be found on Andi’s personal blog. Learning to Write, her essay from the book, is excerpted in her current Mother Shock column […]

Literary Mama has launched two new sections for your reading pleasure. LM’s new Op-Ed section features blistering, humorous, controversial, and of course opinionated commentary. Check out the latest piece by Susi Elkins about the Bush Administration, Budget Cuts and Big Bird. And if you have something to say, let our Op-Eds department know. We’re always […]

When Caitlin Flanagan’s editor approached me about reviewing her book, I asked her if Flanagan would agree to an interview with me. I had already read To Hell With All That: Loving and Loathing Our Inner Housewife and was, in fact, penning my review for Literary Mama when she contacted me. And I really wanted […]

Managing Editor Andrea Buchanan was featured in today’s edition of USA Today. In the article, Literary Mothers Gender-flect, Andi discusses her books It’s a Boy: Women Writers on Raising Sons and It’s a Girl: Women Writers on Raising Daughters and shares her personal experience with raising both a son and a daughter. Andi will be […]

Literary Mama is looking for short (500-900 words), strong, topical, opinionated pieces for the monthly OpEd feature. LM is not a paying market but it is read by some 500,000 parents and writers as well as editors and agents. Click here for submission guidelines. In order to help get those synapses firing, here are the […]

Once again, Literary Mamas have been busy. Literary Mama Columnist and Senior Columns Editor Rachel Sarah’s Flawed and Fabulous Moms is May’s Big Story on BabyCenter.com. In her article, Rachel interviews a number of real-life, imperfect mothers about topics like maternal guilt and the myth of doing it all — a much-needed message at a […]

Part of me really wants to read Caitlin Flanagan’s To Hell With All That: Loving and Loathing Our Inner Housewife. There has been lots of interesting media coverage such as the review in the The New York Times, Anna Mundow’s interview with the author in The Boston Globe, and Joan Walsh’s review on Salon.com. Even […]

As I wait for my copy of Caitlin Flanagan’s To Hell With All That: Loving and Loathing Our Inner Housewife to arrive in the mail, and await the publication of my review of Darla Shine’s Happy Housewives book later this month, I’m happy to report on some decidedly non-housewifely news: Literary Mama managing editor Andi […]