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At the close of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we’re pleased to debut a new column called Bare-breasted Mama. Actually, we’re more than pleased — we’re totally psyched. Written by Gail Konop Baker, it’s a raw, intimate, and powerful look at her journey as a mother with breast cancer. Personally, I have mixed feelings about […]

Mediabistro.com’s Galleycat has an interesting piece on product placement in books. While a handful of books that have embraced this idea does not a trend make, one wonders how long authors will be able to resist tapping into the $6 billion of product placement dollars and in-kind payments. Since so many advertisers are focused on […]

It’s the fall. The air is growing crisp, the days are growing shorter and it’s the perfect time to pour yourself a nice strong cup of tea, draw the curtains and curl up with Literary Mama. This summer saw the relaunch of our e-zine, the launch of the Mama Sez column where LM editors share […]

After a vacation, the Literary Mama e-zine is back up and running. If you are a subscriber, you already will have received the first of a new bi-weekly newsletter in your email box, bringing you tasty tidbits of Literary Mama’s latest writing, news and more. If you aren’t a subscriber and would like to be, […]

We’re looking for four wonderful women (mothers!) to join us here on the Literary Mama editorial board. Creative Nonfiction Co-Editor The Creative Nonfiction Co-Editor will head up the Creative Nonfiction department with Shari MacDonald, our current CNF Editor. Duties and joys include selecting nonfiction pieces, writing acceptance and rejection letters, working with authors on accepted […]

Former Literary Mama Creative Nonfiction Editor Jennifer Margulis (Author of Toddler and Why Babies Do That) was recently awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to conduct research, teach in the English Department, and write in Niger, West Africa for the 2006-2007 academic year. Jennifer and her family will be living in Niger, the poorest country in the […]

Well, first there were the CDC guidelines to treat all women as “pre-pregnant,” as outlined in this article in the Washington Post and subsequent MetaFilter dicussion. Then there was the breastfeeding awareness campaign that equated not breastfeeding with riding a mechanical bull while pregnant, as detailed in the New York Times article, Breast-Feed or Else. […]

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 […]

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 […]

It just won’t go away, will it? My copy of Leslie Morgan Steiner’s Mommy Wars: Stay-at-Home and Career Moms Face Off on Their Choices, Their Lives, Their Families arrived last week and although I have not yet had a chance to dip underneath its spilled milk cover, I feel as though I have already formulated […]

Given that it is International Women’s Day, Maud Newton’s blog post today reads as particularly disheartening. Newton links to Meghan O’Rourke’s essay in Slate entitled Desperate Feminist Wives: Why wanting equality makes women unhappy. O’Rourke refers to a recent study by sociologists at the University of Virginia on happiness within marriage. The study discovered that […]