The question this summer isn't what to read but how to read it. So many devices, so little time.
Some shortcuts and tips on where to find 3Ms beyond your local bookstore:
For those sans Kindle, you can download Kindle software for free on Amazon.
* Buy the Kindle edition and/or download Kindle software for free onto your computer:
* Buy the ebook for the Nook and many other ebook devices.
* Download 3Ms onto your iPad through the iPad bookstore. It's $11.99.
Email me if you have difficulties with any of these programs: info@elizabethbenedict.com. And thanks for clicking through.
5/6/10
2 Essays Win Pushcart Prizes
Sigrid Nunez's essay on Susan Sontag, "Sontag's Rules," and Cheryl Strayed's essay on Alice Munro, "Munro Country," were both selected for Pushcart Prizes for 2011, after appearing first in Tin House and the Missouri Review, respectively. Both essays are scheduled to appear in the annual Pushcart Prize anthology this fall.
4/1/10
3Ms reunion in Santa Monica
Carolyn See, whose smashing 3Ms essay, "The Scholars and the Pornographer," first appeared on The Rumpus, was one of my mentors, though I didn't write about her in the book. She has been a model for me of literary generosity, good humor, and taking the long view. In Santa Monica earlier this week, we had lunch at Michael's, whose wonderful garden you get a sense of in these photos
3/19/10
Writers and Their Influences at UVa
Alice Randall joined the 3Ms last night for a panel at the Virginia Festival of the Book, along with contributors John Casey and Maud Casey. Our conversation will soon be available on the book festival website . I'll let you know when it appears. Thanks for checking in.
3/6/10
March 18-U Va Festival of the Book
Mentors, Muses & Monsters writers John Casey and Maud Casey will join me and author Alice Randall (The Wind Done Gone, Rebel Yell) on Thursday, March 18, at 8pm, for a panel on writers and their influences, on the opening night of this wonderful book festival held every year at UVa, in Charlottesville. John Casey is a professor in the graduate creative writing program and Maud Casey grew up in Charlottesville. Here's information on our event (tickets required) at the Festival and here's info about the Festival itself.
2/15/10
Writers Sing Praises of Their Mentors
The March issue of The Writer has a long, generous review of Mentors, Muses & Monsters. There's no link directly to the review, but it examines contributions by John Casey, Alexander Chee, Michael Cunningham and Anita Shreve, and concludes by describing 3Ms as "a unique collection of essays about the infinite varieties of literary mentoring. To this reviewer's knowledge, [Benedict's] is the first book to do so - and it does it very well." Thank you to reviewer Chuck Leddy, who is a contributing editor at The Writer.
2/4/10
A Night of Mentors, Muses, Teachers & Students
Mentors, Muses and Monsters visited Upstate New York on Wednesday, February 3. Contributors Robert Boyers and Alexander Chee joined me at East Line Books in Clifton Park, NY, about halfway between Albany and Saratoga Springs, for a reading and discussion. The audience was full of our students - from Skidmore, where Robert teaches, Amherst, where Alex teachers, and the Albany area, where I taught several years ago at the NY State Writers Institute at SUNY-Albany. In fact, Robyn Ringler, owner of the store, was in that class. Thanks to Robyn for the invitation and to everyone who braved the cold to come see us.
Photos by Peg Boyers
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