Reading

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.

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Single Mom Seeking: Playdates, Blind Dates and Other Dispatches from the Dating World by Rachel Sarah ISBN#1580051669 published by Seal Press Review by Shari Maser I’ve never been a single mother, and I haven’t been on a date in over seventeen years. So I was quite wary of Single Mom Seeking: Playdates, Blind Dates and […]

At Literary Mama , we turn our attention to the stories of fathers once a year in June, but two fathers have recently released books worth checking out. First, a former Literary Mama contributor, larry bauer, has come out with his first collection of poems. Titled, Health Insurance and Other Matters of Death and published […]

We are kicking off the inaugural Literary Mama Blog Tour post, a feature whereby we will showcase some of our favorite places to visit online. We’ll be starting things off by introducing you to some of our Editors’ blogs. Today, we head on over to Managing Editor (on hiatus) Andrea Buchanan’s Mother Shock. Andi’s blog […]

My interview with Caitlin Flanagan and review of her book, To Hell with All That: Loving and Loathing Our Inner Housewife, have been posted. If you have any comments, we’d love to read them here.

Part of me really wants to read Caitlin Flanagan’s To Hell With All That: Loving and Loathing Our Inner Housewife. There has been lots of interesting media coverage such as the review in the The New York Times, Anna Mundow’s interview with the author in The Boston Globe, and Joan Walsh’s review on Salon.com. Even […]

There has been a lot of chatter recently about Alison Wolf’s Working Girls piece published in Prospect. So I was not at all surprised to see the article reprinted in the Toronto Star. The Star is renowned for its liberal point of view, as outlined in the famed Atkinson Principles to which the paper continues […]