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 […]
Andrea J. Buchanan | September 13, 2005 | Blog | No comments
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 […]
So I’ll share with you here the words of Elise at After School Snack by way of the always wonderful Bitch Ph.D.: Vaginas are scary! Giving birth: it’s a traumatic process, long and drawn out, often resulting in scars and emotional trauma that can make it difficult to be interested in sexual intimacy for some […]
I’m not going to the writing conference I was thinking about in the spring. I’m not sure about this. It’s expensive but I was hoping the investment would be worth it to get me all inspired and stuff. But then I was thinking that what with buying a new house and all the homeschooling activities […]
The State published the following article on Literary Mama on the Sunday edition’s front page. We have the wonderful Claudia Brinson to thank! From the article: This is a new generation coming to terms with the demands of motherhood, says Cassie Premo Steele, 38. A mother and stepmother, Steele edited nonfiction for Literary Mama, teaches […]
One of our Review editors, Joanne Hartman, altered me that Literary Mama had appeared in a July 24th San Francisco Chronicle article by Katherine Seligman titled “Ayelet, Unfiltered.” The subtitle reads: “Berkeley writer Ayelet Waldman’s bald honesty about putting her husband first made her a magnet for controversy. Would she take any of it back?” […]
Congratulations to Rachel Sarah, one of our two Senior Columns Editors, for her newly signed book deal with Seal Press for Single Mom Seeking. You can read her Literary Mama column which inspired the book here. Here is the blurb from Publishers Lunch that announced Rachel’s news: July 15 05 Non-fiction: Memoir Rachel Sarah’s SINGLE […]
Barbara Crooker, a mother-poet and former Literary Mama contributor, has a new book out. Barbara Crooker, a mother-poet and former Literary Mama contributor, has a new book out. Radiance won the Word Press First Book Award and is now available through Amazon, Barnes & Noble or your local bookstore. (ISBN 1932339914) Take a sneak peak […]
Jennifer Niesslein and Stephanie Wilkinson are the brains behind Brain,Child: The Magazine for Thinking Mothers, one of the best print magazines around when it comes to reporting on and exploring the life of mothers. Stacey Greenberg interviews the duo for Literary Mama: SG: How has the material you received changed over the years, if at […]