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Mothers Who Think...again!
The editors of the national bestselling, American Book Award-winning Mothers Who Think: Tales of Real Life Parenthood are teaming up again to bring you a second anthology of smart, irreverent essays on contemporary motherhood. Coeditors Camille Peri and Kate Moses are hard at work putting together an anthology of thirty-something original essays, which will be published in early 2005 by Harper Collins. So far our new team of droll, thoughtful, witty contributors include:
Rosellen Brown, critic and author of the highly praised novels including Before and After, Half a Heart, and Tender Mercies, and the mother of two. Debra Dickerson, critic, journalist and author of the award-winning memoir, An American Story, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection. Dickerson is expecting her second child in October 2003. Janet Fitch, author of the Oprah Book Club selection White Oleander, made into a major feature film starring Michele Pfeiffer. Janet is the mother of a daughter. Ann Hulbert, author of the highly praised Raising America (Knopf 2003), a frequent contributor to the New York Times Book Review, the New York Review of Books, and The New Republic, and mother of two. Beth Kephart, author of the widely praised memoirs Still Love in Strange Places and Into the Tangle of Friendship and a National Book Award nominee for her first book, A Slant of Sun, about her son, Jeremy. Jean Hanff Korelitz, author of the novels The Sabbathday River and A Jury of Her Peers and the forthcoming young adult novel, Interference Powder. Jean is the mother of a son and daughter. Mary Morris, award-winning author of nine books, among them the novel House Arrest, the short story collections Vanishing Animals and The Lifeguard, and Nothing to Declare: Memoirs of a Woman Travelling Alone. Mary has one daughter. Kate Moses, author of Wintering; A Novel of Sylvia Plath, a founding editor of Salon.coms website Mothers Who Think, and coeditor of Mothers Who Think: Tales of Real-Life Parenthood. Kate is the mother of a teenage son and 7-year-old daughter. Ann Packer, the award-winning author of the short story collection Mendocino and Other Stories and the novel The Dive from Clausens Pier, which was chosen for Good Morning Americas "Read This!" book club. Ann is the mother of a boy and girl. Camille Peri, widely published journalist, founding editor of Mothers Who Think, and coeditor of Mothers Who Think: Tales of Real-Life Parenthood. Camille has two boys. Jayne Anne Phillips, one of the most highly praised contemporary fiction writers, is the award-winning author of two widely anthologized short story collections, Black Tickets and Fast Lanes, and the novels Machine Dreams, Shelter, and Mother Kind. She is the mother of two teenage sons. Rahna Reiko Rizzuto is the author of a national bestselling, American Book Award-winning first novel, Why She Left Us, and mother of two young sons. Mary Roach is the author of Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, inspired by her regular column in Salon.com and selected for the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers series. She is the stepmother of two daughters. Susan Straight is the author of the short story collection Aquaboogie and the novels I Been in Sorrows Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots, The Gettin Place, Blacker Than a Thousand Midnights, and Highwire Moon, winner of the Commonwealth Club California Book Award and nominated for the National Book Award. Susan is the mother of three girls. Margaret Talbot, whose highly respected journalism appears regularly in The New York Times Magazine, The New Republic, and The Nation. She is the mother of a son and daughter. Ayelet Waldman, author of the Mommy Track Mystery series The Big Nap, Death Gets a Time Out, Nursery Crimes, and A Playdate with Death -- as well as the brand-new novel Daughters Keeper (Landmark Sourcebook, August 2003). Ayelet is the mother of four children. We don't have a title yet - Son of Mothers Who Think? Mothers Who Think Twice? More Mothers Who Think? What Were We Thinking? - but it's coming soon to a diaper bag near you.
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