03343cam a22004814a 4500 126999 20230410132625.0 111031r20122009nyu s000 0ceng 17028295 2011042411 9781438443508 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1438443501 (pbk. : alk. paper) (OCoLC)ocn760068621 DLC DLC YDX BTCTA YDXCP BDX DLC eng pcc PS 129 M549 2012 810.9/0054 Mentors, muses & monsters : 30 writers on the people who changed their lives / edited by Elizabeth Benedict. Mentors, muses, and monsters Thirty writers on the people who changed their lives 30 writers on the people who changed their lives Writers on the people who changed their lives Pbk. ed. Albany : State University of New York Press/Excelsior Editions, c2012. xiv, 279 p. ; 23 cm. Originally published: New York : Free Press, 2009. Part I: people we encountered -- "Why not say what happened?": remembering Miss Hardwick / Elizabeth Benedict -- Imagining influence / Robert Boyers -- Fathers / Jay Cantor -- Mentors in general, Peter Taylor in particular / John Casey -- Life in books / Maud Casey -- Annie Dillard and the writing life / Alexander Chee -- Snow globe / Jonathan Safran Foer -- When Julie met Deb / Julia Glass -- Tiger and the pelican: mentors Elizabeth Hardwick and Janice Thaddeus / Mary Gordon -- Moment / Arnon Grunberg -- Only plump the pillows / Margot Livesey -- Sontag's rules / Sigrid Nunez -- In the absence of mentors/monsters: notes on writerly influences / Joyce Carol Oates -- Scholars and the pornographer / Carolyn See -- "But what I really love about this is this amazing game that you've invented": an appreciation of John Hawkes / Jim Shepard -- Munro country / Cheryl Strayed -- Mother country / Evelyn Toynton -- Seducer / Lily Tuck -- Harold Brodkey / Edmund White. Part II: books we read -- Company / Michael Cunningham -- Five million head of cattle / Samantha Hunt -- On fat city / Denis Johnson -- Mad hope and mavericks / ZZ Packer -- Getting it. Deeply immersed. In awe. Learning. Reading Ms. McDermott. Appreciating beginnings. Still appreciating beginnings. Nailing it. / Anita Shreve -- Paper mentors / Martha Southgate -- Part III: times of our lives -- Coming of age at bread loaf / Christopher Castellani -- Please don't write / Neil Gordon -- Storying / Dinaw Mengestu -- Growing pains / Caryl Phillips -- Iowa City, 1974 / Jane Smiley. Includes bibliographical references. Authors, American 20th century Biography. Authors, American 21st century Biography. Autobiographies. Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Mentoring of authors. Authors, American Books and reading. Autores estadounidenses Siglo XX. Autores estadounidenses Siglo XXI. Literatura norteamericana Historia y crítica Siglo XX. Benedict, Elizabeth. lcc bk dpf 84870 84870 0 0 lcc 0 0 HU BJB BJB HU 2023-04-10 1 0 PS 129 M549 2012 00000119829 2018-10-25 00:00:00 1 2018-10-25 bk