Prayer for my…advance review copies
Advance review copies of This Thing Called the Future went out today and my publisher sent me a link to a YouTube video of Urban Dance Squad singing “Prayer for my Demo” at a 1990 concert…. Here it is:...
View ArticleDogs, Disease, Poisons, Potions, South Africa, and my new novel!
I feed my dogs first thing each morning, otherwise, life would be miserable for all of us. Then I try–*try* being the operative word here—to make them wait until 4:30 before I feed them again. Around...
View ArticleWorking Moms in a Post-Feminist World
Because I am a new mother working at home with limited childcare, I have been thinking lately how I have no models for how to do this in a healthy and productive manner—healthy for my relationship with...
View ArticleInterview at Through the Tollbooth
Read an interview with J.L. Powers at Through the Tollbooth! Q: What about this novel makes you most proud? There is absolutely nothing on the market like it! It is young adult magical realism, set in...
View ArticleThis Thing Called the Future Kirkus Book Review, April 15, 2011
This Thing Called the Future by J.L. Powers Set in an impoverished South African shantytown where post-Apartheid freedom is overshadowed by rampant AIDS and intractable poverty, this novel takes a...
View ArticleIdentity, Babies, and Writing
Ever since I became a mother, I’ve been referring to myself in the third person. “Mommy loves you,” I tell Nesta, or “You can’t bite Mommy!” even as I think, How weird. It’s like “I” don’t exist. Only...
View ArticleJuggling a Kid on a Hip at a Snooty Literary Conference and thank God for...
This past weekend, I went to AWP in Chicago. I took my 17-month-old son with me. He amused and, perhaps, annoyed people on the plane, on the train, and in taxis with his insistent “HI!” and “BYE!”...
View ArticleSo to Speak Journal
I can be caught at So to Speak Journal today, discussing the role of gender in my y.a. novels, from boys on the U.S-Mexico border to girls growing up in Africa in both an urban Zulu context and a...
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