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Former Literary Mama Creative Nonfiction Editor Jennifer Margulis (Author of Toddler and Why Babies Do That) was recently awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to conduct research, teach in the English Department, and write in Niger, West Africa for the 2006-2007 academic year. Jennifer and her family will be living in Niger, the poorest country in the […]

Who knew that dating as a single mom would cause such a stir? On July 3rd – 4th , Literary Mama’s Rachel Sarah was the guest blogger at The Washington Post for Leslie Morgan Steiner’s “On Balance” column. Read it here: “Single Mom Seeks Play Dates, Blind Dates.” But beware! Her short, light-hearted piece on […]

Well, first there were the CDC guidelines to treat all women as “pre-pregnant,” as outlined in this article in the Washington Post and subsequent MetaFilter dicussion. Then there was the breastfeeding awareness campaign that equated not breastfeeding with riding a mechanical bull while pregnant, as detailed in the New York Times article, Breast-Feed or Else. […]

Leslie Morgan Steiner responded to Mary Tsao’s review of her book Mommy Wars: Stay-at-Home and Career Moms Face Off on Their Choices, Their Lives, Their Families on Literary Mama. In her review, Tsao wrote that while the book is a good one, its title and subtitle are unnecessarily divisive. Steiner responded: I loved the Literary […]

Check out LM columnist Sophia Raday’s essay in the NY Times Modern Love column at Diary of a Soldier’s Wife: Tie-Dye and Camo Don’t Mix From the column: My husband is like the Lone Ranger: he leaves a trail of bullets in his wake. Not silver bullets, but gold 9 millimeters, orange “simunitions” and menacing […]

Just wanted to let folks know that today (Tuesday, June 20) LM’s own Rebecca Kaminsky will be a guest blogger, filling in for Leslie Morgan Steiner at her parenting “work-life” blog on The Washington Post’s website. You will find her at: On Balance. And please join in the dialogue by posting a comment! You can […]

Call the American Academy of Pediatrics; turn me in. Call the SIDS foundation folks. Tell ’em all I did the unthinkable. I bucked the advice. I put my babies, both of them, to sleep on their tummies. And if I danced around that truth before, now I’m willing to admit it, to own up, to […]

When my partner and I were driving our newly placed, three-day old, adopted daughter home for the first time, my partner looked at the baby in the rearview mirror and announced, “You’re a girl! That’s a really complicated thing. Don’t take it too seriously.” As soon as we got the baby home, we began to […]

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 […]