Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Part One. Crossing Ocean Parkway -- 1. On Being White, Female, and Born in Bensonhurst -- 2. Crossing Ocean Parkway -- 3. Slasher Stories -- 4. The College Way -- Part Two. Readings by an Italian American Daughter -- 5. Dr. Dolittle and the Acquisitive Life -- 6. The Paglia Principle -- 7. The Godfarher as the World's Most Typical Novel -- 8. The Politics of the "We" -- Epilogue -- Afterword -- Note on the Author