This Mama Is Lit!

Mar 12 2025 34 ep. 28 mins 3

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Literary Mama's monthly podcast featuring interviews with mama writers.

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Aileen Weintraub: Bedrest Becomes You

Mar 12 2025 25 mins

Holly Rizzuto Palker and Brianna Avenia-Tapper chat with Aileen Weitraub, author of Knocked Down: A High Risk Memoir, about the sacrifice of motherhood, interfaith marriage, and the gifts of grief. Grieving the loss of her father while on bedrest has Aileen poking at the notion of how the boy becomes a man when he loses a father. But what about the girl? What does she become?Aileen

Nancy Johnson: No Margin for Error

Feb 26 2025 29 mins

Holly Rizzuto Palker and Amanda Fields chat with Nancy Johnson, author of People of Means, about ancestral pride, Black excellence and social reckoning in each and every moment in time. They explore the notion of how nothing has changed, yet so much has in a short period of time. Ultimately, Nancy writes to open the dialogue on race and welcome complicated conversations about the r

Sarah Sawyer: Where Does Girlhood Go?

Feb 12 2025 30 mins

Eva Langston and Amanda Fields chat with Sarah Sawyer, author of The Undercurrent, about power in girlhood, mystical physicality in motherhood and secrets unravelled. Sarah also leaves us with a wise warning from her own mother: beware of life events that involve women throwing parties.Sarah Sawyer's debut novel was touted by Gillian Flynn as "A mystery of remarkable scope, bristli

Lena Khalaf Tuffaha: Love Is An Action

Jan 29 2025 30 mins

Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, a poet, essayist, and translator, works tirelessly to break down language and thoughtfully craft it to match the human condition. She is author of three books of poetry: Something About Living (UAkron, 2024), winner of the 2024 National Book Award and winner of the 2022 Akron Prize for Poetry, Kaan & Her Sisters (Trio House Press), finalist for the 2024 Firecra

Ava Chin: Dimensionalizing Paper People

Jan 15 2025 30 mins

Ava Chin is the author of Mott Street: A Chinese American Family’s Story of Exclusion and Homecoming (Penguin Press, 2023) where she shatters the silence that The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 imposed on the disenfranchised Chinese immigrant community. Her extensive research paired with her rich library of oral histories passed down through familial generations were woven togethe

Nicole Cooley: Climate Catastrophe, Grief, and Cigarettes

Jan 01 2025 32 mins

Nicole Cooley grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana - the tragedies of Katrina and the climate crisis run deep for her and pour onto her pages. Her most recent book is a collection of poetry Mother Water Ash (Louisiana University Press, July 2024) that explores the aftermath of sudden death and the feelings of loss we collectively experience with the endless ecological catastrophes. A

Molly Spencer: The Communal Experience of Time

Dec 18 2024 30 mins

Molly Spencer is an award-winning poet, critic, editor, and writing instructor at University of Michigan's Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. Her debut collection, If the House (University of Wisconsin Press, 2019) won the 2019 Brittingham Prize judged by Carl Phillips. A second collection, Hinge (SIU Press, 2020), a finalist for the National Poetry Series, won the 2019 Crab O

Nancy Reddy: Myths of Motherhood

Dec 04 2024 33 mins

Eva Langston and Amanda Fields chat with Nancy Reddy, author of The Good Mother Myth, about how flawed social science presumptions have blurred our visions of motherhood and trusting our intuition.Author Website: https://www.nancyreddy.com/Substack: https://nancyreddy.substack.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nancy.o.reddy/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nancy.reddy.1Pre

Dr. Tovah Klein: Resilience in Uncertain Times

Nov 20 2024 31 mins

Anointed the “Toddler Whisperer” by Good Morning America, Dr. Tovah Klein is consistently tapped for her expertise in childhood development by New York Times, Washington Post, Huffington Post, Motherly, CNN, Today, and Slate, among many others. Her most recent book Raising Resilience has been hailed by Amy Schumer and is a USA Today bestseller. As the Director of the Barnard Co

K.T. Nguyen: Lived Experience as Fiction

Nov 06 2024 28 mins

K.T. Nguyen’s 2024 debut psychological thriller You Know What You Did has received praise from People Magazine, CrimeReads, Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Book Riot, Parade, Elle Magazine, The Seattle Times, and The Telegraph. A former Glamour magazine editor, she’s lived in New York City, San Francisco, and Taipei and has now settled just outside Washington, D.C. with her family