There's a Hell of a Lot of Cursing in Teen Fiction; Twitter Book Clubs

Today in publishing and literature: Foul-mouthed Y.A. characters are everywhere nowadays, pregnancy books have changed, George Bush is writing a book about economic growth, and Twitter book clubs are a thing.

Conversation: Poet Natalie Diaz

Watch Video Natalie Diaz grew up on the Fort Mojave Indian Reservation on the border of California, Arizona and Nevada. She left the reservation to play basketball for Old Dominion University in Virginia and later for professional leagues in Asia and Europe. While she was in college, she also began to write poetry. Her first collection of poems, "When My Brother Was an Aztec," has just been ...

Short Takes

There’s so much advice out there for expectant moms, but how to know which tips are helpful? These books can give you solid information (and one is just for giggles):

Can you identify?

Science shows that the only way around some readers' prejudices is to trick them

Staceyann Chin: Motherhood: Ecstatic, Frenzied, and Exhausted

Last year, on Mother's day, I found out I was pregnant. I can hardly believe it's been a year since that gleeful Mother's Day. Only a year later, and life is a completely different shade of tumbling. I have become the mother of a rather scrumptious little girl.