Author Party at my House!

When I was getting my MFA at Mills College, I took a fascinating class called "Gender and Interpretation" with a great professor named Madeleine Kahn. I remember writing a foam-at-the-mouth dueling paper in response to another student who thought the movie "The Piano" (you remember, that great love story where a mute Holly Hunter gets her finger chopped off by her sweetheart?) was a groundbreaking feminist work. I begged to differ, and compared the movie to "The Little Mermaid," about another great mute heroine who loses part of herself in the name of love. Wow, that was a fun paper to write.

Apparently it was fascinating (and sometimes maddening) to be standing at the head of this classroom as well, and it resulted in Madeleine writing a memoir about teaching at an all-women's college.

I'm hosting a fantastic dessert-and-discussion book party for "Why Are We Reading Ovid's Handbook on Rape?" : Teaching and Learning at a Women's College at my house this Saturday night. You can indulge in the famous and delicous Pumpkin Bars, and engage in what promises to be a lively, sparky discussion. Come one come all! (but please email me to RSVP)