TY  - BOOK
AU  - Benedict,Elizabeth
TI  - Mentors, muses & monsters: 30 writers on the people who changed their lives 
SN  - 9781438443508 (pbk. : alk. paper)
AV  - PS 129 M549 2012
U1  - 810.9/0054 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Albany
PB  - State University of New York Press/Excelsior Editions
KW  - Authors, American
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Biography
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Autobiographies
KW  - Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
KW  - Mentoring of authors
KW  - Books and reading
KW  - Autores estadounidenses
KW  - Siglo XX
KW  - Siglo XXI
KW  - Literatura norteamericana
KW  - Historia y crítica
N1  - Originally published: New York : Free Press, 2009; Includes bibliographical references; 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
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