Elizabeth Benedict

Thursday, May 9, 7:30 PM Editor Elizabeth Benedict hosts What My Mother Gave Me: Thirty-One Women on the Gifts That Mattered Most With contributors Mary Morris, Maud Newton, Elissa Schappell, and Emma Straub What is the most meaningful gift that your mother ever gave you? Whether it’s an old family recipe, an heirloom, or something less tangible, everyone has an answer to this question. In the new anthology What My Mother Gave Me, a dynamite cast of contributors-- Pulitzer Prize winners, a U.S. Poet Laureate, a well-known NPR host, perennial bestselling novelists, winners of the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and more -- explore the many ways that gifts from our mothers shape our lives and relationships. Editor Elizabeth Benedict (who previously appeared at Greenlight for her anthology Mentors, Muses and Monsters) hosts this reading and discussion in celebration of the new anthology, just in time for Mother’s Day.

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In What My Mother Gave Me, women look at the relationships between mothers and daughters through a new lens: a daughter’s story of a gift from her mother that has touched her to the bone and served as a model, a metaphor, or a touchstone in her own life. The contributors of these thirty-one original pieces include Pulitzer Prize winners, perennial bestselling novelists, and celebrated broadcast journalists. Collectively, the pieces have a force that feels as elemental as the tides: outpourings of lightness and darkness; joy and grief; mother love and daughter love; mother love and daughter rage. In these stirring words we find that every gift, no matter how modest, tells the story of a powerful bond. As Elizabeth Benedict points out in her introduction, whether we are mothers, daughters, aunts, sisters, or cherished friends, we may not know for quite some time which presents will matter the most. Elizabeth Benedict is the author of five novels, including the bestseller Almost and the National Book Award finalist Slow Dancing, as well as The Joy of Writing Sex: A Guide for Fiction Writers. She is the editor of the anthology Mentors, Muses & Monsters: 30 Writers on the People Who Changed Their Lives. She has written for numerous publications including the New York Times, Boston Globe, and Huffington Post and two of her essays were Notable Essays in Best American Essay Collections. Mameve Medwed is the author of the novels Mail, Host family, The End of an Error, How Elizabeth Barrett Browning Saved My Life and Of Men and Their Mothers. Her stories, essays, and book reviews have appeared in, among others, the New York Times, Gourmet, Boston Globe, the Missouri Review, Newsday, and the Washington Post. Charlotte Silver is the author of the bestseller Charlotte au chocolat: Memories of a Restaurant Girlhood. Her second book, a young adult novel called The Chaperone, is forthcoming from Roaring Brook Press. She studied writing at The Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and has been published in the New York Times.

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As this diverse anthology reflects, the gifts from mothers to daughters are many and take many forms, from objects as practical as a wok, as decorative as nail polish, or as deep-seated as the need to write. Join Elizabeth Benedict, the anthology’s editor, and contributors Susan Stamberg and Eleanor Clift for a discussion of maternal legacies.

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If you're a rising high school senior or you're the parent of one, you probably have a question or three about college application essays. We often think of "the essay," but there are two essays required on the Common Application, and often many more required on supplementary applications that vary from school to school. For better or worse, in recent years, the essays have become a highly competitive measure that schools use to judge applicants. In the words of one college admissions officer, "A good essay can heal the sick but can't raise the dead." Elizabeth Benedict will offer tips and guidance for navigating the application essay maze, answer questions and suggest book titles. Benedict is an award-winning, bestseller writer and long-time writing professor at top colleges and universities. Through her company, Don't Sweat the Essay, she helps students produce essays that have gotten them into Ivy League and other first-choice schools, early decision/action, with scholarships. www.dontsweattheessay.com

Elizabeth Benedict is the author of five novels, including the bestseller Almost (which Fresh Air’s Maureen Corrigan chose as one of her top five novels of 2001), The Practice of Deceit, and Slow Dancing, which was short-listed for the National Book Award and The LA Times Book Prize. She writes regularly about books and culture for The Huffington Post and has just launched a regular Huff Po column, “Read Any Good Books Lately?” Her nonfiction also appears in The New York Times, Esquire, Tin House, Harper’s Bazaar, The American Prospect, Allure, Salmagundi, and many other publications. She’s taught fiction and non-fiction writing at Princeton, the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Swarthmore College, and the Harvard Extension.

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"A mesmerizing book of essays by famous pens who themselves were once helped -- or hurt -- by established talents as they tried to climb their way up the literary ladder. Mentors, Muses & Monsters beautifully captures the experience of being a literary aspirant -- wide-eyed, enchanted by words, and eager for the tutelage of a mentor -- one who's already scaled the temple wall and emerged, shining, in a turret." The Christian Science Monitor

"This anthology is that rare gem, a collection whose whole is greater, even, than the sum of its parts. Where else could you read musings-about-muses, accompanied by juicy tales from deep inside the writing life, by 30 of the best minds of our generation, all between the covers of one book?" The San Francisco Chronicle

Elizabeth Benedict is the author of five novels, including the bestseller Almost (which Fresh Air’s Maureen Corrigan chose as one of her top five novels of 2001), The Practice of Deceit, and Slow Dancing, which was short-listed for the National Book Award and The LA Times Book Prize. She is also the author of The Joy of Writing Sex: A Guide for Fiction Writers, which is used widely in creative writing programs in the US and abroad. She writes regularly about books and culture for The Huffington Post and has just launched a regular Huff Po column, “Read Any Good Books Lately?” Her nonfiction also appears in The New York Times, Esquire, Tin House, Harper’s Bazaar, The American Prospect, Allure, Salmagundi, and many other publications. She’s taught fiction and non-fiction writing at Princeton, the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Swarthmore College, and the Harvard Extension.

Christopher Castellani is the author of three novels. A Kiss from Maddalena won the Massachusetts Book Award, was a Top Ten BookSense pick, and has been published in five countries and three languages; The Saint of Lost Things was long-listed for the IMPAC/Dublin award and was also published abroad; Beautiful Everything is forthcoming in February 2013. In addition, he has contributed essays on creative writing to numerous anthologies, including Naming The World, Now Write!, and, most recently, Mentors, Muses and Monsters: 30 Writers on the People Who Changed Their Lives.

Jay Cantor is the author of the novels Krazy Kat, The Death of Che Guevara and Great Neck, and two books of essays, The Space Between: Literature and Politics and On Giving Birth to One’s Own Mother. A MacArthur Prize fellow, Cantor teaches at Tufts University and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with his wife Melinda Marble, and their daughter, Grace.

Elizabeth Searle is the author of three books of fiction, the novel Girl Held Home and two works of theatre. Her previous books are: Celebrities in Disgrace, A Four-Sided Bed, and My Body to You. Elizabeth received her BA from Oberlin College in 1983 and her Master’s in fiction writing from Brown University in 1986. She teaches at Stonecoast MFA. Elizabeth lives with her husband and son in Arlington, MA.

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