Writers Elizabeth Benedict, Sigrid Nunez, and Lily Tuck discuss the people who most influenced them. Mentors, Muses & Monsters: 30 Writers on the People Who Changed Their Lives was edited by and includes an essay by Elizabeth Benedict. Sigrid Nunez writes about what it was like to be Susan Sontag's protégé, and Lily Tuck writes about having Gordon Lish as a teacher.
Event: Elizabeth Benedict, Sigrid Nunez, and Lily Tuck will be speaking and signing books
Monday, December 7, at 7:00 pm
Barnes & Noble, Upper East Side
150 East 86th Street, near between Lexington and Third Avenues