The November issue of Bookslut features an ambitious multi-book review/essay that includes works from Portlanders Lidia Yuknavitch (Dora: A Headcase) and Blake Nelson (Girl and Dream School), and Spokane’s Gregory Spatz (Inukshuk). Who needs vampires when there’s so much real teen angst and real bad parenting to mine? Thanks, Judy Blume, you changed things Forever.
I arrived ten minutes late to the Occupy Broadway Books: Bedtime Stories for Grown-Ups event. Even though I knew the deal, I was still surprised—and impressed—to see about 100 adults of all ages dressed in pajamas, some holding stuffed animals and blankies as they sat cross-legged on the floor in front of the register waiting …
When public figures make headlines saying inane things about women’s bodies, it’s clear we’re too penned in by ignorance. This is why Lidia Yukanavitch’s novel Dora: A Headcase (Hawthorne Books) is timely and valuable. The novel is a feminist reclamation of Freud’s infamous case study. Yukanavitch’s Dora has refused diagnosis and the hysteria of her …
