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Thanks to Caroline, This Mom, Melanie Lynne Hauser, and Gayle Brandeis for blogging about the book this week! And Susan reflects more on her earlier post about the book, which brought up feelings for her around motherhood, creativity, and the need for solitude. There’s a great essay up at Literary Mama right now that touches […]

I was saddened to hear about the death of NOW co-founder and Feminine Mystique author Betty Friedan yesterday. I didn’t really know why I felt sad. I did not know her. She was 85 years old. By all accounts, she had lived a very full and remarkable life. It was author Ann Douglas who (as […]

Welcome to week two of the Blog Book Tour for the Literary Mama anthology! Look for posts today from This Mom, Gayle Brandeis, Martha Brockenbrough, and Melanie Lynne Hauser. In the meantime, today I’m answering the first of my reader-submitted questions about Literary Mama and the LM anthology. These questions come from fellow Seal Press […]

Because I was too busy working and taking care of my kids, I only recently caught up with Rebecca Traister’s Salon interview with Debbie Klett, editor of Total 180!, a new magazine for stay-at-home moms, or, as Total 180! terms them, Chief Household Officers. The interview is of course accompanied by the usual flood of […]

During my first pregnancy, I dutifully answered my doctor’s questions — allergies to medications no, family history of cancer yes — until he asked: “Will you be breastfeeding?” Huh? I’d just turned 30. Like most who don’t answer to “Mom,” what I knew about breast-feeding couldn’t fill a sippy cup. Today it seems a month […]

Welcome, new readers, to the Literary Mama blog. You may have found us by way of media appearances or book readings for Literary Mama, It’s A Boy, or Confessions of a Naughty Mommy, all of which were written or edited by Literary Mama editors. Perhaps you attended one of the Mother Talks which took place […]

Literary Mama Editor, Columnist and Naughty Mommy Heidi Raykeil was featured on The Situation with Tucker Carlson on MSNBC last night. Seems like she had Mr. Carlson feeling a little hot and bothered under his trademark bow tie. The transcript can be found here (about half way down the page).

The blog book tour for the Literary Mama anthology kicked off this week with seven bloggers writing about the book. I’d like to shine the spotlight on one of the bloggers, who has also been published on Literary Mama and has a piece in It’s a Boy: Susan Ito. Susan was at our January reading […]

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Literary Mama’s The Naughty Mommy is at it again! This time she’s been answering readers’ questions over at The Washington Post.

This one was close to my heart because it took place in my cozy neighborhood independent bookstore. Much has been written about the sudden death of the owner, Debi Echlin, just two months ago, and she truly was a remarkable woman. Local Author (of one of my favorite books of last year, The Unthinkable Thoughts […]

The buzz from last Friday evening’s Mother Talk has yet to die down. I pick my son up from preschool and a mom stops me with an urgent glance: “I’m so disappointed I missed the Mother Talk! Are you doing it again soon?” I’ve gotten calls and emails from others who couldn’t make it and […]