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02850cam a22003734a 4500 001 85C47EBCFBD011DEB3E93EDF5F36B428 003 SILO 005 20190815012642 008 090310s2009 nyu 000 0ceng 010 $a 2009009640 020 $a 1439108617 (hbk.) 020 $a 9781439108611 (hbk.) 035 $a (OCoLC)310397796 040 $a DLC $c DLC $d SILO $d YDXCP $d BKL $d C#P $d ORX $d GPI $d BUP $d SILO 050 00 $a PS129 $b .M475 2009 245 0 $a Mentors, muses & monsters : $b 30 writers on the people who changed their lives / $c edited by Elizabeth Benedict. 250 $a 1st Free Press hardcover ed. 260 $a New York : $b Free Press, $c 2009. 300 $a x, 278 p. ; $c 24 cm. 505 00 $g Part I: people we encountered -- $t Harold Brodkey / $r Edmund White. $t Imagining influence / $r Robert Boyers -- $t Fathers / $r Jay Cantor -- $t Mentors in general, Peter Taylor in particular / $r John Casey -- $t Life in books / $r Maud Casey -- $t Annie Dillard and the writing life / $r Alexander Chee -- $t Snow globe / $r Jonathan Safran Foer -- $t When Julie met Deb / $r Julia Glass -- $t Tiger and the pelican: mentors Elizabeth Hardwick and Janice Thaddeus / $r Mary Gordon -- $t Moment / $r Arnon Grunberg -- $t Only plump the pillows / $r Margot Livesey -- $t Sontag's rules / $r Sigrid Nunez -- $t In the absence of mentors/monsters: notes on writerly influences / $r Joyce Carol Oates -- $t Scholars and the pornographer / $r Carolyn See -- $t "But what I really love about this is this amazing game that you've invented": an appreciation of John Hawkes / $r Jim Shepard -- $t Munro country / $r Cheryl Strayed -- $t Mother country / $r Evelyn Toynton -- $t Seducer / $r Lily Tuck -- $t Harold Brodkey / $r Edmund White. 505 00 $g Part III: times of our lives -- $t Iowa City, 1974 / $r Jane Smiley. $t Five million head of cattle / $r Samantha Hunt -- $t On fat city / $r Denis Johnson -- $t Mad hope and mavericks / $r ZZ Packer -- $t Getting it. Deeply immersed. In awe. Learning. Reading Ms. McDermott. Appreciating beginnings. Still appreciating beginnings. Nailing it. / $r Anita Shreve -- $t Paper mentors / $r Martha Southgate -- $g Part III: times of our lives -- $t Coming of age at bread loaf / $r Christopher Castellani -- $t Please don't write / $r Neil Gordon -- $t Storying / $r Dinaw Mengestu -- $t Growing pains / $r Caryl Phillips -- $t Iowa City, 1974 / $r Jane Smiley. 650 0 $a Authors, American $y 20th century $x Biography. 650 0 $a Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) 650 0 $a Autobiographies. 740 0 $a Mentors, muses and monsters. 700 1 $a Benedict, Elizabeth. 941 $a 5 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20220804021045.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180117013231.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160825043910.0 952 $l UUAX975 $d 20101231010558.0 952 $l KSPG296 $d 20100201083435.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=85C47EBCFBD011DEB3E93EDF5F36B428 994 $a 02 $b BUPInitiate Another SILO Locator Search