Reading

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 […]

Another quick post as the children are restless. When I hear about writers making ‘great sacrifices’ for their art such as up holing up in cabins in the woods or hotels while they churn out their novels, I must say it irritates me a little; the real test is trying to write while rocking the […]

Just a brief post from me. We are all cold-ridden over here and we were up until the wee hours in the E.R. with our 6 month old (he’s fine). But I thought that a couple of things that happened this week were worth mention: Judith Warner wrote a thoughtful op-ed piece in the New […]

Thank you to Sandy at Imponderabilia of Actual Life for pointing me to this article by Mary Ann Roman which appeared in Parents Express magazine. In her article, There are No Mommy Wars, she challenges the notion that there is a Mommy War being waged Out There pitting stay-at-home moms against those working outside the […]

In my last post I wrote that I had received a copy of Darla Shine’s Happy Housewives book. Its arrival coincided with my discovery that Caitlin Flanagan also had penned a Housewife Chic book and the notion of a fashionable return to domesticity was making me feel rather cranky. Both Darla Shine and a Darla […]

Well, it’s been a banner week in my life. First, Darla Shine‘s Happy Housewives appeared on my doorstep. My favorite line so far is “Our mothers have no idea how they have burdened us with liberation and equality.” Liberation. Equality. Yep, that’s a real drag. Then, I learned here and here that Caitlin Flanagan’s new […]