It's Our World: Literary Review + Fall Edition News

Literary Legends Eudora Welty and Margaret Walker

The Lipstick Pages Literary Review

Last month we announced a new addition to our quarterly (seasonal) zine: a quarterly review of women's literature coming in late August. It's still happening, and I'd like to announce a partial list of books for review.

Fall 2008 Highlights

Chick Lit:

Does anyone feel sorry for the husband (under the pile of laundry)?

Fiction

No Girl Needs A Husband Seven Days A Week (Adult Novel, African-American) - Nina Foxx (Sept.)
Deep Dish (Adult Novel) - Mary Kay Andrews (Sept.)
Piranha to Scurfy (Adult Short Stories, Mystery/Suspense) - Ruth Rendell (Oct.)
Back to Life - Kristin Billerbeck, or Under The Red Moon - Mina Hepson (TBA Nov. )

Flashback
A Sin of Color - Sunetra Gupta (Sept.)
Jemima J - Jane Green (Oct.)
Why Girls Are Weird - Pamela Ribon (Nov.)

Lipgloss: For The Young Ones
The Truth About Forever (Young Adult Novel) - Sarah Dessen (Sept.)
Small Avalanches (Young Adult Short Stories) - Joyce Carol Oates (Oct.)


Non-Fiction

Memoir: The Art of Memories (Sept.)
Epilogue: A Memoir - Anne Roiphe
The Sum of Our Days - Isabel Allende

Biographical: Black Narratives (Oct.)
Cane River - Lalita Tademy

The Feminist P.O.V. (Nov.):
Feminism is for Everybody - Bell Hooks

Poetry

Selected Poems and American Smooth - Rita Dove


The Classics:


Fiction

Jubilee - Margaret Walker (Sept.)
Losing Battles - Eudora Welty (Oct.)
The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers (Nov.)

Youth Classics
It's Not The End of The World - Judy Blume (Sept.)
Breaking Up - Norma Klein (Oct.)
Member of The Wedding - Carson McCullers (Nov.)

Non-Fiction
T.B.A. next month!

Poetry
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Love Poems by Women: An Anthology of Poetry from Around the World and Through the Ages - Wendy Mulford (ed.)

We're also accepting recommendations for reviews in Winter 2008/2009! Send them our way @ info@thelipstickpages.net, and we'll add it to the list.




Now Accepting Submissions for Fall 2008: It's Our World

The Lipstick Pages welcomes original art, essays, fiction, photos, poetry, and short films/video. Subject matter for the fall edition may be related to, but not exclusively concerned with, changing the lives of women - through individual, grassroots, and international activism.

Deadlines: September 12th - poetry, stories, essays, articles, and blog posts; September 19th - art and photos. Online submissions only to editor@thelipstickpages.net. Accepted work will appear online Friday, September 26th. Please read our guidelines before sending material: www.thelipstickpages.net/submissions.htm.


Thanks for your support - and keep reading!

Danna Williams, Editor