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Shalla Chats with Editors Back-2-Back
February 1, 2007
SHALLA CHATS with Richard Peabody
Writing and Publishing Literary Fiction
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Who is Richard?
Richard Peabody, a prolific poet, fiction writer and editor, is an experienced teacher and important activist in the Washington , D.C. community of letters.
He is the founder and co-editor of Gargoyle magazine and editor (or co-editor) of fourteen anthologies including Mondo Barbie, Conversations with Gore Vidal, A Different Beat: Writings by Women of the Beat Generation, Alice Redux, Sex & Chocolate, and Grace and Gravity: Fiction by Washington Area Women.
He is the author of the novella Sugar Mountain, two short story collections, and six poetry collections including Last of the Red Hot Magnetos and I'm in Love with the Morton Salt Girl. He is currently working on Kiss the Sky: Fiction & Poetry Starring Jimi Hendrix (forthcoming 2007).
Peabody holds a B.A. from the University of Maryland and an M.A. in Literature from American University. He has taught at the University of Virginia, Georgetown University, The Writer's Center, and at Hopkins, where he has been presented the Faculty Award for Distinguished Professional Achievement. Peabody lives and works in the Washington, D.C. area.
You can find out more at: http://www.wikipedia.org/
http://www.gargoylemagazine.com/
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April 4, 2007
SHALLA CHATS with Alice Andrews
Biofiction Introduced
First of all, who is Alice?
Alice Andrews teaches psychology with an evolutionary lens at the State University of New York at New Paltz, and is the editor/publisher of Entelechy: Mind & Culture, an evolutionarily-informed interdisciplinary online journal. She is also the author of Trine Erotic, a novel that explores evolutionary psychology and other behavioral science themes.
Alice is currently working on a book (based on her essay with the same title, published at Metanexus) called An Evolutionary Mind (to be published as part of Imprint Academic's series: "Societas: Essays in Political and Cultural Criticism"), and plans to begin writing another novel soon.
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SHALLA READS!
Secret Society Girl by Diana Peterfreund is such a fun read and has all the signs of becoming heir apparent to The Devil Wears Prada, so why isn't it?
I'm sure we'll get a lot more fun novels from Diana Peterfreund who's obviously a great talent!
Check out this book!
The M.O.O.D. Lounge
Zondra Hughes
Lulu (2007)
ISBN 9780979166600
Reviewed by Paige Lovitt for Reader Views (12/06)
women have reassumed their roles to serve men, and they also start supporting them. This all includes doing their cleaning, cooking, and taking care of them financially. The men have started
staying at home and not doing anything except engaging in their own sexual interests and pampering themselves. This is not acceptable.
Sex therapist, Dr. Pat Rizzo, who says, “Women are being sexed into stupidity,” has created the M.O.O.D. Lounge to help women overcome their sexual dependence upon men. She calls this condition “Lover’s Lobotomy Syndrome,” or LLS. Using survey results for women, Dr. Rizzo
carefully selects three women who all have major cases of LLS. M.O.O.D. stands for “Multiple Orgasms on Demand.” It is described as “a self-esteem-enhancing journey into erotica that takes
courage, sexual awareness and honesty.”
The cases of the three selected women are reviewed using sex diaries, observations, and confessions.
Their names are Dru, Fawn, and Eva. Each one has a very interesting story to tell about their dysfunctional relationships. Dr. Rizzo has them form a support group in which they first must accept that they have LLS and that their lovers are really losers. The next step is to teach these
women how to sexually satisfy themselves. This involves using B.O.B.s, which are battery operated boyfriends. Once the women learn how to please themselves, it lessens their dependence upon men.
This allows women to become more selective about the men that they choose to have in their lives.
The men that are worth salvaging can be taught to be worthy lovers.
I really enjoyed reading “The M.O.O.D. Lounge.” The author Zondra Hughes has written a fun fictional novel that has capitalized on an issue that seems to be coming too real in our society. There
are plenty of real women that would be diagnosed with LLS. At first, the characters in this story seem to be exaggerated in their behaviors with men. That is what makes it fun to read. As I read
and reflected on this issue, the more I thought about how many real women could be in this story. In the back section of the book there is a “MOOD Manual,” that offers some great advice on sexual
self-satisfaction and becoming a strong empowered woman.
“The M.O.O.D. Lounge” is a must read, especially for women’s groups. The discussions that can come from this book will range from hysterically funny to thought provoking. Women really need
to read this to take back their power!
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