[close] On the whole, it’s been a pretty good year for women in literature: Herta Muller won the Nobel; Hilary Mantel the Booker, Annette Gordon-Reed the National Book Award, and Elizabeth Strout the Pulitzer. We appear to have come "a long way, baby" since the days when Mary Anne Evans wrote under the pen name of George, Nathaniel Hawthorne declared that “[a]ll women, as authors, are feeble and tiresome”, and Norman Mailer wrote “[t]he sniffs I get from the ink of women are always fey, old-bat, Quaintsy, Gaysy, tiny, too dykily psychotic.” (Too dykily psychotic?) But the fact that women are winning major literary prizes makes it all the more troubling when women authors continue to be ghettoized in major newspaper and magazine lists of what we ought to read. Come join us to talk about women authors we love to read! [close]