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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 […]

Once again, the Literary Mama editors have been busy over the last month. While in Virginia for the VA Festival of the Book, Managing Editor Andi Buchanan, Miriam Peskowitz and Barbara Ehrenreich spoke on a panel about “Women, Family and Work: A Candid Discussion” at the UVA Bookstore. Andi discusses the panel in more detail […]

There has been a lot of chatter recently about Alison Wolf’s Working Girls piece published in Prospect. So I was not at all surprised to see the article reprinted in the Toronto Star. The Star is renowned for its liberal point of view, as outlined in the famed Atkinson Principles to which the paper continues […]

There’s nothing like a pre-nap triangle of PB&J and a glass of milk on the couch with some old friends on Sesame Street. That’s how I spent my afternoons after a hard day at kindergarten, but lately it seems too much to ask for our nation’s kids. These are difficult times, after all, and sacrifices […]