Check out WOMEN'S WISDOM: Celebrating National Women's History Month at Margin throughout March. Currently, you can find feature essays on Toni Morrison and Zora Neale Hurston, as well as overviews of Native America's magical realist women, magical realism's "blue-stockinged" heroines and an American Top Forty list of key magical realist divas. Forthcoming: a discussion of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" as a magical realist treatise on suffrage. Also, in March our newsblog is entirely devoted to magical realist women authors from the US; we'll keep you posted on what's happening throughout the month.

[3.2.06]
Alice B. Hoffman's lovely young adult story, "Aquamarine," was released as a feature film that will probably interest "tweens" more than adults, according to USA Today. But that's okay, the story is simple and lovely. I read it to my kids last summer and it left them in a romantic buzz. I hope the movie does that to them as well.