Reading

In honor of National Poetry Month, our poetry reviewer Ginny Kaczmarek offers this great round up of recent poetry collections. Ginny writes: I’m a fan of Beth Ann Fennelly–I reviewed Tender Hooks a while back for Literary Mama–and I love her new book, Unmentionables. Tender Hooks dealt primarily with the birth of a child and […]

LM’s editor-in-chief Caroline Grant will be reading from Mama, PhD and discussing issues raised by the book at two events next week: At the University of Richmond, she’ll be joined by Jennifer Cognard- Black, Della Fenster, and Children’s Lit Book Group columnist Libby Gruner. Reception to follow! Wednesday, April 8, 2009 4:00pm – 5:30pm University […]

Check out Sybil Lockhart (Literary Mama Reviews Editor and Mama in the Middle columnist) book, Mother In The Middle: A Biologist’s Story of Caring for Parent and Child, on Barnes and Noble’s Rave Reviews From Our Readers. Sybil Lockhart, a Berkeley neurobiologist, became a “mother in the middle” when she was pregnant with her second […]

Read A Cup of Comfort for New Mothers with essays by some of LM’s own moms-Caroline Grant (Editor-in-Chief), Amy Hudock (Founding Co-Editor)and Kristina Riggle (Fiction Co-Editor). There’s a new baby in the house—and it’s not the only one crying. New moms cry happy tears, tired tears, and overwhelmed tears—and that’s when the wisdom, sensitivity, and […]

Please join Reviews editor and former columnist (Mama in the Middle) Sybil Lockhart, who will be appearing on Bay Area television and appearing in local bookstores in February. Friday, February 6, 2009 at 3pm “View from the Bay” Channel 7 KGO TV watch Sybil’s appearance here! Sunday, February 8 at 2 pm Book Passage Bookstore […]

Fellow author Kelly Corrigan just released this very moving essay about women, friendship and loss on YouTube to celebrate the paperback version of her book The Middle Place. Read, A Conversation with Kelly Corrigan in the Literary Mama Profiles.

Announcing the newest issue of Miranda, a zine about motherhood and other adventures by Creative Nonfiction editor Kate Haas. In issue #18: Kubla Khan in Morocco – How the crushing heat of a North African summer inspired me to memorize a classic poem. Not the Austins – As a kid, I vowed that my future […]

Mama, PhD Reading at University Press Books 2430 Bancroft Way, Berkeley Thursday, November 13th, 6 PM “All those sleepless nights and dirty diapers and baby food in your hair — where’s the discursive construction of motherhood when you need it?” –Catherine Newman Higher Education could be an enormously family-friendly environment, a model for other workplaces, […]

Check out the latest book by Tamar Chansky….an earlier book of Dr. Chansky’s called, “Freeing Your Child From Anxiety” was extremely helpful to my family. Dr. Chansky says, “As a child psychologist I know it’s one thing to give lip service to the idea that failure is “good” for kids, it is wholly another to […]

LM’s Bare Breasted Mama Columnist, Gail Baker, will be will be in San Francisco next week doing a few readings from her new book, Cancer Is A Bitch. You can also catch her on KGO TV’s “View from the Bay” program on the 30th. September 30 — Kepler’s in Menlo Park San Francisco, CA 7:30 […]

Columnist Elrena Evans will read from her anthology Mama, PhD: Women Write about Motherhood and Academic Life (co-edited with Senior Editor Caroline Grant) at 1:00 on October 11th at Barnes & Noble in Valley Forge, PA. Elrena will be joined by Mama, PhD contributors Laura Levitt and Miriam Peskowitz. We’d love to see you there!