Check out this interview with one of my fave writers

Here’s an excerpt from a feature about one of my absolutely favourite writers, Ariel Gore. Please check out the story in this month’s edition of BookSlut:

http://www.bookslut.com/features/2008_02_012336.php

“Ariel Gore is a woman who took life by the balls, and yanked. Novelist Marc Acito called her “an adventurer, the Indiana Jones of literature.” She has raised a little hell and a lot of eyebrows with her gritty ability to look reality in the face without flinching. Gore, also known as Hip Mama, is something of a guru to her unexpected niche market — young, new, single, or alternative moms — ever since her daughter Maia happened while Ariel was a teenager. Forget the “you can’t” mentality and public gossip: Gore launched the Hip Mama zine and a collection of parenting diaries for the real world, where chaos and joy mingle like old friends. Gore talked to Bookslut in 2005 about the mother lode. Late last year, she had another child, but now that she’s respectably thirty-something, it was her writing manual that ruffled a few feathers. The button-down old guard may wonder who the hell this socially awkward, sexually ambiguous, tattooed stick of dynamite is, and why she’s telling us what to do.”