Sandi Wisenberg and Paula Kamen

5/30/2001 – 5/30/2001

7:00pm

Paula and Sandi?s night of whine, women and song, A book release party for Sandi Wisenberg?s The Sweetheart is In (TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press) and Paula Kamen?s Her Way (NYU Press) with Karen Wilson, Susan McLaughlin Karp and Donna Adler

In Sandi Wisenberg?s words, ?I always had trouble writing a straight story. At the Iowa Writers? Workshop an unnamed teacher looked at a story of mine and said, ?Do you always write like this?? It didn?t help that I?d forgotten to give him the last page.? Sandi Wisenberg is the author of two books, The Sweetheart is In, short stories (TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press? And Sleepless Jews, Essays (University of Nebraska Press, 2002). Her work has found its way into dozens of magazines and newspapers, some of them still extant: the New Yorker, the Chciago Reader, Miami Herald, Tikkun, and Crain?s Chicago Business.

Paula Kamen is a Chicago-based journalist and playwright and author of Her Way: Young Women Remake the Sexual Revolution, (NYU Press). Her book Femminist Fatale: Women from the ?Twenty Something? Generation Explore the Future of the ?Women?s Movement?. Is widely noted as the first post-boomer feminist book. Her writing on feminism and young women has appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post, Ms., Chicago Tribune, and about a dozen anthologies. She has contributed humorous essays to two major anthologies of young non-fiction writers, Next: Young American Writers On The New Generation (W.W. Norton, 1994) and Shiny Adidas Track Suits and the Death of Camp: The Best of Might Magazine (Berkeley Boulevard, 1998)

Performers

Sandi Wisenberg and Paula Kamen