S293. Bad Influences: Writers and the Writers Who Corrupted Them

Room 515 B, LA Convention Center, Meeting Room Level
Saturday, April 2, 2016
4:30 pm to 5:45 pm

 

Who did you read so much that their influence actually got you into trouble? On this cross-genre panel, a novelist, a memoirist, and three poets speculate with wit and candor on whether you can know when you’ve been influenced too much, and whether there’s a difference between good influence and bad influence. Can reading poetry be bad for prose? Can pop culture be good for anything? Panelists will also consider which “bad influences” are "corrupting" genres today.


Participants

Moderator:

Katie Peterson is the author of three books of poetry, This One Tree, Permission, and The Accounts, the winner of the 2014 Rilke Prize from the University of North Texas. She has received fellowships from Yaddo, Bread Loaf, the Radcliffe Institute, and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts.

Sandra Lim is the author of two collections of poetry, Loveliest Grotesque and The Wilderness. She was awarded the 2013 Barnard Women Poets Prize for The Wilderness. She is an assistant professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell.

Leslie Shipman is assistant director of the National Book Foundation. She's been active in literary programming for over twenty years. She holds an MFA from Warren Wilson College. Her poetry has appeared in Tinderbox Poetry Journal, BOMB, the Kenyon Review, Best New Poets, and elsewhere.

Garth Greenwell's first novel is What Belongs to You. He is a recent graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he was an Arts Fellow. He is currently the Richard E. Guthrie Memorial Fellow at the University of Iowa.

Thomas Page McBee is the author of Man Alive, which received rave reviews in the New York Times, Kirkus, and Publisher's Weekly, and was named best book of the year by NPR Books and BuzzFeed. His essays and reporting appear in the New York Times, Playboy, the Rumpus, and the Pacific Standard.

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