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 […]
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 […]