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020 _a9781438443508 (pbk. : alk. paper)
020 _a1438443501 (pbk. : alk. paper)
035 _a(OCoLC)ocn760068621
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050 1 4 _aPS 129
_bM549 2012
082 0 0 _a810.9/0054
245 0 0 _aMentors, muses & monsters :
_b30 writers on the people who changed their lives /
_cedited by Elizabeth Benedict.
246 3 _aMentors, muses, and monsters
246 3 _aThirty writers on the people who changed their lives
246 3 0 _a30 writers on the people who changed their lives
246 3 0 _aWriters on the people who changed their lives
250 _aPbk. ed.
260 _aAlbany :
_bState University of New York Press/Excelsior Editions,
_cc2012.
300 _axiv, 279 p. ;
_c23 cm.
500 _aOriginally published: New York : Free Press, 2009.
505 0 0 _gPart I: people we encountered --
_t"Why not say what happened?": remembering Miss Hardwick /
_rElizabeth Benedict --
_tImagining influence /
_rRobert Boyers --
_tFathers /
_rJay Cantor --
_tMentors in general, Peter Taylor in particular /
_rJohn Casey --
_tLife in books /
_rMaud Casey --
_tAnnie Dillard and the writing life /
_rAlexander Chee --
_tSnow globe /
_rJonathan Safran Foer --
_tWhen Julie met Deb /
_rJulia Glass --
_tTiger and the pelican: mentors Elizabeth Hardwick and Janice Thaddeus /
_rMary Gordon --
_tMoment /
_rArnon Grunberg --
_tOnly plump the pillows /
_rMargot Livesey --
_tSontag's rules /
_rSigrid Nunez --
_tIn the absence of mentors/monsters: notes on writerly influences /
_rJoyce Carol Oates --
_tScholars and the pornographer /
_rCarolyn See --
_t"But what I really love about this is this amazing game that you've invented": an appreciation of John Hawkes /
_rJim Shepard --
_tMunro country /
_rCheryl Strayed --
_tMother country /
_rEvelyn Toynton --
_tSeducer /
_rLily Tuck --
_tHarold Brodkey /
_rEdmund White.
505 0 0 _gPart II: books we read --
_tCompany /
_rMichael Cunningham --
_tFive million head of cattle /
_rSamantha Hunt --
_tOn fat city /
_rDenis Johnson --
_tMad hope and mavericks /
_rZZ Packer --
_tGetting it. Deeply immersed. In awe. Learning. Reading Ms. McDermott. Appreciating beginnings. Still appreciating beginnings. Nailing it. /
_rAnita Shreve --
_tPaper mentors /
_rMartha Southgate --
_gPart III: times of our lives --
_tComing of age at bread loaf /
_rChristopher Castellani --
_tPlease don't write /
_rNeil Gordon --
_tStorying /
_rDinaw Mengestu --
_tGrowing pains /
_rCaryl Phillips --
_tIowa City, 1974 /
_rJane Smiley.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references.
650 0 _aAuthors, American
_y20th century
_vBiography.
650 0 _aAuthors, American
_y21st century
_vBiography.
650 0 _aAutobiographies.
650 0 _aInfluence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
650 0 _aMentoring of authors.
650 0 _aAuthors, American
_xBooks and reading.
650 4 _aAutores estadounidenses
_ySiglo XX.
650 4 _aAutores estadounidenses
_ySiglo XXI.
650 4 _aLiteratura norteamericana
_xHistoria y crítica
_ySiglo XX.
700 1 _aBenedict, Elizabeth.
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