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- Panel Discussion-Mentors, Muses
Barnes & Noble 150 E. 86 St. NYC
Monday, December 7 at 7:00pm - Reading: Elizabeth Benedict an...
Skidmore College - Palamountain Hall
Tuesday, June 30 at 8:00pm
Elizabeth Benedict What's Christmas got to do with good writing? Write a story, enter a contest, maybe even win a prize.
www.huffingtonpost.com
Plenty of writers proceed without courses, without MFAs. They read voraciously, and learn about writing from reading, the way we learned to write before there were courses in it.
Elizabeth Benedict "If you are about to die, I have a hotel to recommend with wrought-iron balconies hanging above the Arno and coffee service from friendly guys in tuxedos. Compared with the hospital, they're giving the rooms away." - Michael Downing, Life with Sudden Death.
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It's a compelling story, but it's Downing's intelligence, his bone-dry wit, his carefully measured sorrow, carefully controlled rage, and beautifully wrought prose that make this memoir such a standout.
Elizabeth Benedict Monday, Monday. 12/7. Talking to Lenny Lopate on WNYC 93.9FM at 1.25pm EST - 2pm, with contribs from Mentors, Muses (repeats 1.25am-2am EST), and then we rock at Barnes and Noble at 7pm, 150 E. 86 St., joined by Mary Gordon (on Lizzie Hardwick), Sigrid Nunez (on Susan Sontag), and Lily Tuck (on Gordon Lish).Panel Disc...ussion-ReadingTime:7:00PM Monday, December 7thLocation:Barnes & Noble, 150 E. 86th St. 3rd & Lexington, NYC
Time:7:00PM Monday, December 7th
Location:Barnes & Noble 150 E. 86 St. NYC
Elizabeth Benedict A Day in the Life of, well, me....
catchingdays.cynthianewberrymartin.com
Annie Dillard wrote, “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” On the first of each month, Catching Days hosts a guest writer in the series, “How We Spend Our Days.” Today, please welcome writer Elizabeth Benedict:
Elizabeth Benedict A Mentors, Muses, Monster team made it to Brooklyn on Monday night, to the city's newest indie bookstore, Greenlight Bookstore, in the heart of Fort Greene, up the street from BAM. It's worth a trip wherever you are. In the phono l to r, me, Lily Tuck, Alexander Chee, Martha Southgate, Mary Gordon.
Elizabeth Benedict My short story, "If I Could Speak Chinese" in in Narrative Magazine. It's somewhat limited access, but maybe all of my FB friends are insiders....
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If I could speak Chinese, I would talk to the women who give me massages in the basement shop for a dollar a minute on Eighty-fourth Street off Columbus. I know I go there to relax, to relieve the tension ...
Elizabeth Benedict Jim Shepard's wonderful essay about studying writing with John Hawkes just went up on The Rumpus. It'll appear in my upcoming anthology, MENTORS, MUSES & MONSTERS: 30 WRITERS ON THE PEOPLE WHO CHANGED THEIR LIVES (Oct. Free Press/Simon & Schuster).
therumpus.net
· September 18th, 2009 · filed under Homepage Feature, Original Content, books, rumpus original
Elizabeth Benedict Reading with Elizabeth Benedict (www.elizabethbenedict.com) AND Margot Livesey (www.margotlivesey.com) at the NY State Summer Writers Institute. No charge. Books will be for sale. Reception afterwards.
If you're in Albany or Saratoga Springs...
Time:8:00PM Tuesday, June 30th
Location:Skidmore College - Palamountain Hall
