Mentors, muses & monsters
Subtitle: 30 writers on the people who changed their lives
By: [edited by] Elizabeth Benedict
Publisher: State University of New York Press/Excelsior Editions
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781438443508
Subjects: Books and reading; Biography; Mentoring of authors; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.); American Authors; Autobiographies
Other titles: 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
Notes: "Originally published by Free Press"-- T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Part I: people we encountered; title: "Why not say what happened?": remembering Miss Hardwick  -- Elizabeth Benedict; title: Imagining influence  -- Robert Boyers; title: Fathers  -- Jay Cantor; title: Mentors in general, Peter Taylor in particular  -- John Casey; title: Life in books  -- Maud Casey; title: Annie Dillard and the writing life  -- Alexander Chee; title: Snow globe  -- Jonathan Safran Foer; title: When Julie met Deb  -- Julia Glass; title: Tiger and the pelican: mentors Elizabeth Hardwick and Janice Thaddeus  -- Mary Gordon; title: Moment  -- Arnon Grunberg; title: Only plump the pillows  -- Margot Livesey; title: Sontag's rules  -- Sigrid Nunez; title: In the absence of mentors/monsters: notes on writerly influences  -- Joyce Carol Oates; title: Scholars and the pornographer  -- Carolyn See; title: "But what I really love about this is this amazing game that you've invented": an appreciation of John Hawkes  -- Jim Shepard; title: Munro country  -- Cheryl Strayed; title: Mother country  -- Evelyn Toynton; title: Seducer  -- Lily Tuck; title: Harold Brodkey -- Edmund White.; title: Part II: books we read; title: Company  -- Michael Cunningham; title: Five million head of cattle  -- Samantha Hunt; title: On fat city  -- Denis Johnson; title: Mad hope and mavericks  -- ZZ Packer; title: Getting it. Deeply immersed. In awe. Learning. Reading Ms. McDermott. Appreciating beginnings. Still appreciating beginnings. Nailing it.  -- Anita Shreve; title: Paper mentors  -- Martha Southgate -- Part III: times of our lives; title: Coming of age at bread loaf  -- Christopher Castellani; title: Please don't write  -- Neil Gordon; title: Storying  -- Dinaw Mengestu; title: Growing pains  -- Caryl Phillips; title: Iowa City, 1974 -- Jane Smiley.