A Manner of Being : Writers on Their Mentors.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Lineage I -- Tobias Wolff on John L'Heureux -- Douglas Unger on Raymond Carver, John Irving, and Richard Stern -- George Saunders on Douglas Unger and Tobias Wolff -- Adam Levin on George Saunders -- Schoolhouse -- Aimee Bender on Judith Grossman and Geoffrey Wolff -- Mary Caponegro on John Hawkes -- James Franco on School -- Lee Montgomery on Five Mentors -- Carmen Maria Machado on Kevin Brockmeier and Michelle Huneven -- Leonid Kostyukov on Anatoly Kim -- Scott Laughlin on Alberto de Lacerda -- Davy Rothbart on Charles Baxter -- Jedediah Berry on William Weaver -- C. Dale Young on Donald Justice -- Maya Lang on Ron DeMaio -- Mecca Jamilah Sullivan on Amy -- Peter Meinke on Robert "Bobo" Rudd and Mrs. Maureen Vanderbilt -- Stefan Kiesbye on Irving Feldman -- Michael Martone on John Barth -- Outliers -- Richard Poplak on Fabian Cancellara's Legs -- Diane Cook on Ira Glass -- Mary Gaitskill on the Old Guy -- Kevin Canty on Harry Crews -- Rodrigo Rey Rosa on Paul Bowles -- Ken Babstock on Three Builders -- Aleksandr Skidan on Boris Ostanin -- Tony D'Souza on the Exquisite Lady -- Byron Case on L. -- Henry Rollins on Hubert Selby, Jr. -- Sheila Heti on Susan Roxborough -- Mikhail Iossel on Gilbert Sorrentino -- Edie Meidav on Peter Matthiessen -- Megan Mayhew Bergman on Tammy White -- Polina Barskova on the Teacher -- Rosemary Sullivan on Leonora Carrington and P. K. Page -- Lineage II -- Padgett Powell on Donald Barthelme -- Mike Spry on Padgett Powell -- Sam Lipsyte on Gordon Lish -- Noy Holland on Gordon Lish -- Christine Schutt on Elizabeth Hardwick -- Tough Love -- Deb Olin Unferth on John Probes -- Erica Dawson on Mary Jo Salter -- Nick Flynn on Philip Levine -- Roy Kesey on Robert Day -- Sabina Murray on Valerie Martin -- Rui Zink on Alberto Pimenta.

Anya Groner on Beth Ann Fennelly -- Dawn Raffel on her Grandmother -- Pam Houston on Martha Washington -- No Mentor Here -- Paisley Rekdal on No One -- Christine Hume on Some Teachers -- Tibor Fischer on a Mentor Missed -- Tony Hoagland on Rejecting your Mentors -- Interventions -- Stephen Elliott on Surrounding Yourself with the People you Most Wish to Become -- Josip Novakovich on Terrence Malick -- Maaza Mengiste on Breyten Breytenbach -- Alissa Nutting on Kate Bernheimer -- Jon Paul Fiorentino on Robert Kroetsch -- Nathan Deuel on William T. Vollmann -- Peter Trachtenberg on James McCourt -- George Singleton on Fred Chappell -- Jay Parini on Gore Vidal -- Frank X. Gaspar on Donald Drury -- Lineage II -- Tayari Jones on Ron Carlson -- Ron Carlson on David Kranes -- Arthur Flowers on John O. Killens -- Annie Liontas on Arthur Flowers -- Acknowledgments -- About the Contributors -- Back Cover.

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