In the second event organized by the Women's Committee, twelve writers discuss mentorships, friendships, and other relationships between women writers past and present. Mary Gordon introduces the event. The writers discussed range widely, from Bettina von Arnim and Karoline von Günderrode, friends and fellow radicals in Frankfurt in the height of German Romanticism, to journalist Mary Heaton Vorse who covered the strikes and labor movements in Michigan in the early years of the twentieth century, to Alice Childress's tribute to her grandmother, who taught her to write by encouraging her to tell stories about the people they saw on the streets of Harlem. There are some problems with the audio near the end of the event. Participants include Nancy Milford, Silvia Tennenbaum, Vivian Gornick, E. M. Broner, Grace Paley, Jane Cooper, Luisa Valenzuela, Judith Malina, Karen Malpede, Alice Childress, and Sarah E. Wright.
