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Reading Recommendations from Regan McMahon!

Author Regan McMahon (Revolution in the Bleachers: How Parents Can Take Back Family Life in a World Gone Crazy Over Youth Sports) currently featured in Profiles (who also happens to be the deputy book editor at the San Francisco Chronicle) has some book recommendations for Literary Mama readers. McMahon says: “I loved the book I […]

Caroline Grant |  January 27, 2008 | | Blog |  No comments

The Mother of all Zines is Back!

Mamaphiles, the mama-zine compilation, announces the publication of its third issue. In this installment, twenty-five zine-writing mamas (including Literary Mama’s Creative Nonfiction Co-Editor Kate Haas) and one papa take on the theme “Coming Home.” Contributors range from zine veterans like Ariel Gore of Hip Mama to young mothers brand-new to zines. Packed with essays, poetry, […]

Shari MacDonald Strong |  December 11, 2007 | | Blog |  No comments

Short Review: Unsung Heroines

Annie Kassof, a single mother of two in Berkeley, sent us this short review of Unsung Heroines: Single Mothers and the American Dream by Ruth Sidel (University of California Press, 2006, $17.95) Hunter College professor of sociology Ruth Sidel’s newest book, Unsung Heroines: Single Mothers and the American Dream, is a testament to the strength […]

Sybil Lockhart |  November 14, 2007 | | Blog |  No comments

Miranda Issue #17

Announcing issue number seventeen of Miranda, CNF co-editor Kate Haas’s zine about motherhood. This issue features the essay “Waldorf School Dropout” (gnomes and knitting don’t make up for a hellish teacher); a discussion about using your child’s card to reserve extra books at the library (clever strategem or unethical scam?); the account of a maternal […]

Shari MacDonald Strong |  November 14, 2007 | | Blog |  No comments

The Daring Book For Girls

The Daring book for Girls by authors Andi Buchanan and Miriam Peskowitz has received a lot of press since it hit the bookshelves this month. In the Sunday New York Times Style section, Liesl Schillinger writes, “In the “Daring Book for Girls,” the authors mix inspiring tales of girls who made good (mostly familiar names […]

Amy Mercer |  November 8, 2007 | | Blog |  No comments

Dispatches from Reviews

Literary Mama’s Reviews desk is in the enviable position of receiving far more books than we can ever hope to review. While we are giddy that so many authors are writing books about mothering, and so many mother writers are writing books about, well, everything, we cannot review more than a handful of titles each […]

Jen Lawrence |  September 8, 2007 | | Blog |  No comments

New Reading for Fans of the Bare-breasted Mama

Former Literary Mama columnist Gail Konop Baker is contributing to a grog (group blog) for debut authors, The Debutante Ball. Check out Gail’s posts every Monday; her memoir, Cancer Is A Bitch: Reflections on Midlife, Mortality, Motherhood and Marriage, will be published in October by Da Capo Press.

Caroline Grant |  August 21, 2007 | | Blog |  No comments

Bloggers Needed!

MotherTalk is looking for mama bloggers who would like to review books that appeal to women and mothers who love to read. They’re currently looking for people to review James Patterson’s latest YA novel, Maximum Ride 3, as well as Susan O’Doherty’s Getting Unstuck Without Coming Unglued: A Woman’s Guide to Unblocking Creativity … with […]

Marjorie Osterhout |  July 16, 2007 | | Blog |  No comments

Wanted: Mom Bloggers & Book Reviewers

Literary Mama Co-founder Andi Buchanan has spent the last several months building a new venture called MotherTalk, which connects publishers with bloggers who are willing to review books that appeal to women and mothers who love to read. Past blog tours have included books like Writing Motherhood, The Other Mother, and The Kids Book Club […]

Marjorie Osterhout |  June 27, 2007 | | Blog |  No comments

“Mother’s Day” Monday Night Blues, May 14th

Editors, contributors, and friends of LiteraryMama.com will be reading poetry, fiction, and memoir in honor of mothers at the East Bay Meeting House (coffee shop next to East End Brewery) this Monday night, May 14th, 8:00-9:00. Mama writers are welcome to join us to read their own work during the open mic that starts at […]

Amy Mercer |  May 11, 2007 | | Blog |  No comments

Announcing Book Club Works

Literary Mama contributor Cindy Dyson announces the launch of Book Club Works, a grassroots, adoption-style program that matches the thousands of book clubs across the country with the thousands of literacy teachers, activists and volunteers in order to bring the transforming power of books to the people who need it most. For literacy workers Book […]

Caroline Grant |  February 12, 2007 | | Blog |  No comments

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