On Teaching Students to Love Nonfiction
Forty-six states and Washington D.C. have adopted what are called Common Core State Standards for their schools. What have some English teachers been outraged about? They require students to be reading primarily nonfiction by the time they are in high school. As the...
Playwright Susan Josephs Talks About Her New Play, The Interview
When you learn the story line of The Interview, a new play running in LA this month, you will know why it immediately interested me! It deals with what I call the pronatalist Right to Reproduce Assumption in my book, The Baby Matrix. Check out my interview with the...
Revisiting the Fertility Industrial Complex
The recent spread, “Outsourcing a Life” in the San Francisco Chronicle on one couple’s experience with Indian surrogacy begs for revisiting and adding to a La Vie Childfree discussion from about a year ago. Romney’s son and his wife have done...
Costs That Come with Becoming an Indie Author
In the last several years the publishing industry has seen many changes. The advent of print-on-demand technology and e-reader tablets are just two things that have changed publishing forever. Digital technology in publishing has also made it easier for writers to...
Meet Kaye Walters, Childfree Author of Kidfree & Lovin’ It!
Author Kaye Walters has done something no other writer in the childfree genre has – she has conducted a survey of over 4000 childfree to learn about the childfree choice and those who make it. I recently had the chance to interview her about the survey, her...
The Childfree Genre: Bring on More Interviews & Essay Collections
I was delighted to see Henriette Mantel in last Sunday’s Chicago Tribune Lifestyles section in Heidi Steven’s piece, “Childless Writers Address Choice to Forego Parenthood.” Stevens closes with a great quote: “No Kidding strikes me as...
Talking Overpopulation: Signs of Coming Out of Taboo Territory?
Today the San Francisco Chronicle has the biggest feature article on population growth I have ever seen it do. The article is titled, “As the World Grow, So Do Climate Dangers.” In watching new nonfiction releases, I have also been noticing an excellent...
Writing Worthy Works of Nonfiction
As a childfree choice expert, a couple of years ago the Wall Street Journal asked if I would respond to a piece by Bryan Caplan related to his book, Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids. We had our different points of view to be sure, but the other day I ran across...
Childfree=Narcissist? Authors of The Narcissism Epidemic Would Likely Disagree
Tom Wolfe famously proclaimed the 70’s “The Me Decade.” In 1979 Christopher Lasch’s The Culture of Narcissism became an unexpected…