Tag: Trump

‘louie’ is launched

In spite of ominous snowy weather outside, I was thrilled that friends, family, and interested readers showed up to Tatnuck Bookseller in Westborough, Mass. help me launch Louie on the Rocks into the world.

Fellow UMass-Amherst alum Kevin Koczwara — who once took a media criticism class with me there — asked ample creative and probing questions about political polarization, journalism, and family conflicts.

As I signed copies of books, a number of people shared that they, like the Francis family in Louie, have experienced family angst and division in the Trump era (both the current one and the previous one). I told them I hoped that, as they read the novel, that they feel seen and understood.

ms. career girl recommends ‘louie’ for liberal adult children with conservative parents

The web site Ms. Career Girl has pulled together a list of recommended reads for 2025 — “a book for every type of reader” — and Louie on the Rocks made their list.

Ms. Career Girl recommended the novel — out Feb. 4 from SparkPress — for liberal adult children “living in their parents’ conservative world.”

a post-election reckoning

In the predawn hours on the day after the election, I processed my angst through my writing. I submitted this piece to GirlTalkHQ and they graciously decided to publish it.

If you’re feeling the way I’m feeling, you likely need to cope with your grief, your anger, your dismay. This is for you.

Here’s how the piece begins:

They chose the rapist.

They empowered the serial, sexual abuser.

The one who famously values women only for how sexually attractive they are to him.

The one who hand-picked Supreme Court justices who then stole reproductive rights from American women, rights they’d previously sworn were safe.

The one who bragged about that revocation of reproductive rights, how he was responsible for turning the clock back fifty years. Who selected a running mate who assesses females based on their reproductive status and their usefulness for the tasks of bearing, raising, and caring for children.

Supporters of this presidential ticket openly laughed about how their opponent — a former prosecutor-state attorney general-US senator-vice president — was a prostitute who gave blow jobs in order to get ahead, that she worked street corners.

They called their competitor stupid. A bitch. A hoe. The c-word.

To read the rest, go to GirlTalkHQ.