In Response to Memoir Week on Slate…
The other week, Slate hosted “Memoir Weekâ€, assessing the state of the modern memoir and posing the following question to a group of memoir writers: How do you, as memoirists, choose to alert...
View ArticleFearless Friday
The enterprising, fearless ladies over at MotherTalk have invited me, along with hundreds of other women, to blog today about a fearless moment in my life, or a moment when I started becoming fearless....
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Only Child in the Country
Just back from a reading of Only Child upstate. Daph and I spoke to a group of 40 women in Chester, New York – the sisterhood of a synagogue out there on Sunday (thank you, Paula!). They were an...
View ArticleReport from The Devil, the Lovers, and Me
Kimmi Auerbach’s reading at Border’s in Columbus Circle last night was packed–I’ve never been to a reading quite like it. Kimmi, author of The Devil, the Lovers, and Me: My Life in Tarot, picked three...
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Reading Diary: The Terror Dream
If you’re a New Yorker reading Susan Faludi’s The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America, you can’t help but relive those first few days. So my question while reading it so far is this:...
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Blogging Pregnancy…or Not
I’ve been so busy during this pregnancy either a) puking or b) helping start a social networking site and company that I haven’t found time to write much–or even journal about–the bizarro incredible...
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Intersectional Feminist Book Review – Impossible Motherhood
Impossible Motherhood is a new memoir by Irene Vilar, editor of The Americas series at Texas Tech University Press and a writer who uses the history of her life and the lives of her mother and maternal...
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OFF THE SHELF: Choosing Not Choosing
This phrase, coined by Sharon Cameron for the title of her book about Emily Dickinson’s fascicles (the sewn bundles of folded poems found after her death) references Dickinson’s refusal to abide by...
View ArticleGIRL TALK: Motherhood and the Big 1-0
My daughter Maya turns 10 today. You may not remember what it feels like to hit double digits, but take it from me: this is a big deal. Maya might say that hitting 10 means that she is definitely...
View ArticleGIRL TALK: Quick Hits on Motherhood and Feminism
What Would Simone de Beauvoir Say? Bringing Up Bébé by former Wall Street Journal reporter Pamela Druckerman is the latest addition to books that highlight our cultural obsession with motherhood, or...
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Book Smarts: Book Smarts: Not That Kind of Girl
Guest blogger Rebecca Hoffman asks: Is Lena Dunham’s new memoir feminism for a new generation? Or something else? It has been said by women’s historian Laurel Thatcher that “well-behaved women seldom...
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