Story Time Sunday special edition, 12/28/14 – my favorite feminist fictions of 2014

Friends – I just finished reading Dana Johnson’s novel Elsewhere, California. You have to read it. It’s generous, funny, sad, and heroic. If you are a writer who wants to write about race and class, you need to read this book. If you are a writer who wants to write about women artists, you need … Continue reading Story Time Sunday special edition, 12/28/14 – my favorite feminist fictions of 2014

Sunday Special — 2 books worth reading, June 29th 2014

Dear Friends -- I've been busy helping a family member with a medical situation. It's funny how the medical and its attendant woes -- pain, waiting, garages, doctors, logistics, pharmacies, -- silences a person, makes a person quiet in the face of something that words can't solve or change. So, I've been feeling quiet lately. … Continue reading Sunday Special — 2 books worth reading, June 29th 2014