Mentors, muses & monsters :  30 writers on the people who changed their lives / 
 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 
edited by Elizabeth Benedict. 
 - Pbk. ed. 
 - Albany :  State University of New York Press/Excelsior Editions,  c2012. 
 - xiv, 279 p. ;  23 cm. 
<br/><br/> Originally published: New York : Free Press, 2009. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references. 
<br/><br/> "Why not say what happened?": remembering Miss Hardwick /  Imagining influence /  Fathers /  Mentors in general, Peter Taylor in particular /  Life in books /  Annie Dillard and the writing life /  Snow globe /  When Julie met Deb /  Tiger and the pelican: mentors Elizabeth Hardwick and Janice Thaddeus /  Moment /  Only plump the pillows /  Sontag's rules /  In the absence of mentors/monsters: notes on writerly influences /  Scholars and the pornographer /  "But what I really love about this is this amazing game that you've invented": an appreciation of John Hawkes /  Munro country /  Mother country /  Seducer /  Harold Brodkey /  Elizabeth Benedict --  Robert Boyers --  Jay Cantor --  John Casey --  Maud Casey --  Alexander Chee --  Jonathan Safran Foer --  Julia Glass --  Mary Gordon --  Arnon Grunberg --  Margot Livesey --  Sigrid Nunez --  Joyce Carol Oates --  Carolyn See --  Jim Shepard --  Cheryl Strayed --  Evelyn Toynton --  Lily Tuck --  Edmund White.  Part I: people we encountered --  Company /  Five million head of cattle /  On fat city /  Mad hope and mavericks /  Getting it. Deeply immersed. In awe. Learning. Reading Ms. McDermott. Appreciating beginnings. Still appreciating beginnings. Nailing it. /  Paper mentors /  Coming of age at bread loaf /  Please don't write /  Storying /  Growing pains /  Iowa City, 1974 /  Michael Cunningham --  Samantha Hunt --  Denis Johnson --  ZZ Packer --  Anita Shreve --  Martha Southgate --  Christopher Castellani --  Neil Gordon --  Dinaw Mengestu --  Caryl Phillips --  Jane Smiley.  Part II: books we read --  Part III: times of our lives -- 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781438443508 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1438443501 (pbk. : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2011042411 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Authors, American--20th century--Biography.<br/>Authors, American--21st century--Biography.<br/>Autobiographies.<br/>Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)<br/>Mentoring of authors.<br/>Authors, American--Books and reading.<br/>Autores estadounidenses--Siglo XX.<br/>Autores estadounidenses--Siglo XXI.<br/>Literatura norteamericana--Historia y crítica--Siglo XX.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS 129  / M549 2012 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>810.9/0054