You can buy books right here!

How to Become a Famous Writer Before You're Dead: Your Words in Print and Your Name in Lights by Ariel Gore. Booklist calls it "One of the snappiest, most useful books a writer for hire is likely to read." Includes interviews with Ursula K. LeGuin, Susie Bright, Dave Eggers, Jim Munroe, and many others...
signed, $14 + $1 shipping

The Traveling Death and Resurrection Show is Ariel's novel about a Catholic-themed traveling freak show. With lots of saint lore. Gayle Brandeis says "This novel is a miracle--deliciously subversive and deeply spiritual."
signed, $14 + $1 shipping

Atlas of the Human Heart is Ariel's teenage vagabond memoir.
signed, $15 + $1 shipping

The Mother Trip: Hip Mama's Guide to Staying Sane in the Chaos of Motherhood is Ariel's classic on, well, staying sane. Harriet Lerner called it "Brave, wise, and absolutely original."
signed, $15 + $1 shipping

Whatever, Mom: Hip Mama's Guide to Raising a Teenager is written by Ariel with excellent essays by daughter Maia Swift (including her delicious "Eight Most Embarrassing Things About My Mother")
signed, $15 + $1 shipping

The Essential Hip Mama brings together the best of the first ten years of Hip Mama, the zine that launched the contemporary maternal feminism movement.
signed, $14 + $1 shipping

Breeder: Real-Life Stories from the New Generation of Mothers is the groundbreaking Gen X collection edited by Ariel Gore and Bee Lavender
signed, $16 + $1 shipping

The Hip Mama Survival Guide: Advice from the trenches is Ariel Gore's first book--now out of print!
signed, $16 + $1 shipping

Hip Mama #39 (the last issue edited by Ariel). For the new Hip Mama, click to the Hip Mama Shop
$4

You can also get a 6-pack of back issues of the zine...
$24 + $3 shipping

How to Leave a Place: 26 Short Memoirs by Portland Writers brings together work by Ariel's writing students at The Attic.
$14 + $1 shipping

Mother's Day Party & Variety Show

Come celebrate the spring & the changing of the editors...

MOTHER'S DAY PARTY & VARIETY SHOW IN PORTLAND!
We'll be hosting a Mother's Day party & variety show fundraiser for the relaunch of the zine
Connect with other counter-culture parents
Meet the new editor
Support the new Hip Mama
Music from The Repair and others
Puppet show
Silent auction
Beer & Wine
Readings by Ariel Gore and others...
Watch for more details right here...
Mark your calendar: Sunday, May 11, 5 - 8 p.m., at the Watershed - 5040 SE Milwaukie in Portland, $5 suggested donation (or get a free ticket with your 5-issue support the new Hip Mama subscription
Kids free & welcome

Coming to a city near you

Who can help me FLYER about upcoming events in NYC, Burlington, Ithaca, Pittsburgh, Knoxville, Asheville, Raleigh, Chapel Hill, Richmond, and Baltimore...? Email me!

And look: Susan Ito blogged about the book.

Super-Pregnant Spring Tour

How to Become a Famous Writer Before You're Dead is out now! Booklist says it's "one of the snappiest, most useful books a writer for hire is likely to read."

Please come to an event - they're all free & all ages.

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Ariel solo in...

PORTLAND, OR
Thursday, April 12 – 7:30 p.m.
Powell’s on Hawthorne - 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd.

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And joined by Annie Downey, author of Hot and Bothered, and China Martens, The Future Generation, on the Ideals and Dreams Book Tour...

NEW YORK, NY
Friday, April 20 - 7 p.m.
Bluestockings Books - 172 Allen Street between Stanton and Rivington

BURLINGTON, VT
Saturday, April 21 - 5:30 p.m.
Vermont Peace & Justice Center - Church Street Market Place (21 Church St.)

ITHACA, NY
Sunday, April 22 - 2 p.m.
Bookery II - Dewitt Mall - 215 N. Cayuga

PITTSBURGH, PA
Monday, April 23 - 7 p.m.
Joseph-Beth Booksellers - 2705 E. Carson St.

ASHEVILLE, NC
Wednesday, April 25 – 7 p.m.
Malaprop’s Bookstore & Cafe - 55 Haywood St.

KNOXVILLE, TN
Thursday, April 26 - 6:30 p.m.
Carpe Librum - 5113A Kingston Pike

CHAPEL HILL< NC
Friday, April 27 - 4 p.m. - BOOK SIGNING ONLY
Internationalist Books - 405 W Franklin St.

RALEIGH, NC
Friday, April 27 – 7 p.m.
Quail Ridge Books and Music - 3522 Wade Ave.

RICHMOND, VA
Saturday, April 28 – 12 noon
Richmond Zine Fest
The Firehouse Theatre - 1609 W Broad St.

BALTIMORE, MD
Saturday, April 28 – 7 p.m.
Atomic Pop - 3620 Falls Rd.

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And then Ariel solo again...
FRIDAY HARBOR, WA
Saturday, May 12 - 6 p.m.
San Juan Island Library - 1010 Guard St.

LAKE OSWEGO, OR
Tuesday, July 17 - 7 p.m.
Lake Oswego Library - 706 4th St.

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I think it's fantastic, for aspiring and established writers alike! Even Greg, who reads only periodicals, plays, and histories, picked it up, read for half an hour straight and said, "She's a smart woman."
--Ayun Halliday

Tour Pictures!

Tiffany Talbott took the pics!

Bio

Ariel Gore was born in Carmel, California in 1970; dropped out of Palo Alto High School in the mid-'80s to become an international bag lady. She turned up back in California at age 19, baby in tow. Following her misspent youth, she earned an undergraduate degree from Mills College, founded Hip Mama magazine, got her master's in journalism from U.C. Berkeley, authored lots of books including Atlas of the Human Heart, a finalist for the Oregon Book Award, The Traveling Death and Resurrection Show, a Booksense Pick novel, and How to Become a Famous Writer Before You're Dead. She has two kids, Maia and Maximilian, born 17 & a half years apart.