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Of Words and Dogs and Little Fishes*

I feel so blessed that I can “work” from home as a book reviewer, essayist and occasionally as a literary editor, and to comfortably say that I read for a living. It’s like living the dream (well, until the bills come in, but that’s neither here nor there). But I didn’t realize just how many [….]

LitStack Review: Bodies of Water by T. Greenwood

Bodies of Water T. Greenwood Kensington Books Publication Date: September 24, 2013 ISBN 978-0-7582-5093-3 In an interview with the San Diego Reader, author Tammy Greenwood talked about getting caught by Hurricane Irene while visiting her family in Massachusetts in August 2011. “We were totally stranded. I couldn’t drive through the crazy weather. We ended up [….]

Birthdays

On this day, January 21, in 1895, Japanese author, social critic and feminist Itō Noe was born in Fukuoka, Japan. While editor-in-chief of the feminist magazine Seitō, she placed great emphasis on addressing societal problems which garnered severe government pushback and censorship. Her anarchist views on challenging arranged marriages, promoting free love and legalizing abortion (and later prostitution) threatened societal norms, and in 1923 she, her longtime partner, and his 6-year-old nephew were arrested, strangled to death, and thrown into an abandoned well by a squad of military police, sparking shock and anger throughout Japan; she was 28 years old.

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