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Well, it’s been a banner week in my life. First, Darla Shine‘s Happy Housewives appeared on my doorstep. My favorite line so far is “Our mothers have no idea how they have burdened us with liberation and equality.” Liberation. Equality. Yep, that’s a real drag. Then, I learned here and here that Caitlin Flanagan’s new […]

Literary Mama Senior Editor Heidi Raykeil’s interview with Ann Curry on the Today show can be viewed here. After her interview aired, sales of Confession of a Naughty Mommy jumped, driving the book from #77,093 on the Amazon sales rank yesterday to #39 (and climbing) today. In other words, today Heidi’s book sold more copies […]

The Dallas Morning News ran a piece on December 18 about the economic cost of motherhood, based on a study by economist Amalia Miller. Miller discovered that a “year of delayed fertility leads to a 10% increase in career earnings, a 5% increase in career work experience, and a 3% increase in career average wage […]

Literary Mama’s own Heidi Raykeil will be appearing on NBC’s Today show tomorrow morning in the 9am time-slot to promote her new book, Confessions of a Naughty Mommy.

The Toronto Star ran an article today on “mommy blogs” and how mothers are connecting via the web. Author Andrea Gordon interviewed Literary Mama’s Andi Buchanan and me (among others) for the article and Literary Mama received a nice mention in the sidebar article. A major component of the article is about how blogging has […]

Bethany Hiitola is a blogging mom who is taking the self-publishing aspect of the blogosphere one step further. She had posted a draft of her novel, Postpartum Euphoria, online in the hopes of generating some buzz and to get some bites from agents or editors. Could this be the start of something new?

It is December 6. On this date, in 1989, 14 female engineering students were murdered because they were women. Because they were, in the mind of a serial killer, feminists. The Association for Research on Mothering has asked us to take a moment today to remember these 14 women, who today might have been at […]

One of the more provocative responses to yesterday’s post, “The ‘Elite’ Talk Back” was by the original article’s author Linda Hirshman. When I saw the comment initially, I steeled myself for criticism. Instead, my points were ignored (dismissal perhaps being the ultimate form of criticism) and Hirshman instead wrote an oddly personal response to The […]

In Homeward Bound, published in The American Prospect, Linda Hirshman makes the argument that, among America’s “elite” women, feminism has, essentially, failed. Her proof — “Half of the wealthiest, most-privileged, best-educated females in the country stay home with their babies rather than work in the market economy.” She sets out to prove that, while the […]

The National Post (a Canadian national daily) had an article in last weekend’s paper by Anne Kingston (who is one of the few Post writers who does not make my teeth itch) entitled The latest motherhood advice is not about raising children, and subtitled The only acceptable stay-at-home moms are yummy. Seeing the word motherhood […]

In this week’s question, Dr. Sue addresses the dangers of writing what you know (again, it has to do with other people! Why do writers always seem to come up against this “other people” issue??). This is something I grapple with often, especially as someone who writes mostly nonfction. Personal essays about my life necessarily […]