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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 […]

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?” […]