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To kick off the publication of my latest book It’s a Boy, I’m launching a web-based book tour: the Blog Book Tour. With 50 bloggers participating, it looks to be a new and enjoyable alternative to hanging out in bookstores in random cities hoping to entice people to let me sign their books. Which is […]

Martha is one of my favorite online writer friends. She is also a force to be reckoned with. Read her impassioned response to Maureen Dowd’s recent piece in the Times, In Defense of the Bake Sale. My favorite part is the whole damn thing, so I’ll restrain myself and just quote a few choice paragraphs: […]

A wonderful writer and online friend is making a guest appearance on MJ Rose’s blog every Friday starting today. Sue O’Doherty, PhD, is a psychologist specializing in issues affecting writers, and is no slouch herself. (And, in the interest of full disclosure, she has a lovely essay in It’s a Boy.) Today she tackles two […]

We have four new fiction pieces up: San Andreas by Ericak Lutz,The Hero of Queens Boulevard by Michelle Richmond, Embarrassment of Riches by Carol Cronin, and Day Care Lady by Deborah Bauer. And in slice-of-life nonfiction, we have new columns: Down Will Come Baby, Mother and Other, and our newest column by our newest columnist, […]

The Mother Talk event the other week was well attended and (I think) well enjoyed. Deena was a gracious hostess, and her house was more than accomodating to the 35 or so women who came to eat, drink, and talk. This event was more political than the others, since we were featuring Miriam‘s book, and […]

Miriam Peskowitz has an eloquent response to the recent New York Times feature on Ivy-educated women who plan to give up work for motherhood. And she also links to an excellent piece by MMO editor Judith Stadtman Tucker, who writes, in part: . . . [I]t’s occurred to me that mothers may not be doing […]

If you’re in the Philadelphia area, we have another Mother Talk event coming up: Thursday, Sept. 29, at 8 p.m. Here’s the official invitation. Mother Talk: Thursday, Sept. 29, 8 p.m. Sponsored by Literary Mama and Time Out! Please join us for “Mother Talk,” an old-fashioned literary salon with good food, good company, and good […]

LiteraryMama contributor and New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Lauck (who has an essay in all three of my upcoming anthologies, It’s a Boy, Literary Mama, and It’s a Girl) posed a question for her blog readers about the kind of situation many of us have experienced: making a judgment call about another person’s parenting. […]

This week we’re running a fascinating conversation between LiteraryMama contributor Deesha Philyaw Thomas and CUNY professor of sociology Barbara Katz Rothman, author of (most recently) Weaving a Family: Untangling Race and Adoption. DPT: You have what is, in my experiences with white people, a not entirely popular view of white-skin privilege. You observed that such […]

LiteraryMama contributor Ona Gritz has a new chapbook of poems available! Ona has shared the truth about mothering her son with Literary Mama readers in poems such as The Impatient Mother and Shared Custody. Now she turns her honest eye to explore the experience of loss and daughterhood. In Left Standing, a chapbook from Finishing […]

I’m sure many of you by now have read, or at least heard discussed, the Alpha Mom article in New York magazine a while back. It featured the kind of upper-stratosphere wealth and uber-working-mom gawking/stereotyping that would make Caitlin Flanagan salivate (or at least want to kick herself for not getting to skewer this woman […]