This book is so goddamn good, you’ll plotz.
Karen Karbo is a very funny writer – from near slapstick to wry wit. Amazing.
Peter Selgin is a born writer, capable of taking any subject and exploring it from a new angle, with wit, grace, and erudition.
Violation contains important work from an important writer. I’m so glad it’s out in the world.
3 June 2016, 10:00am
Lighthouse Writers Workshop, Denver, CO
7 June 2016, 7:00pm
Elliott Bay Books, Seattle , WA
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Georgia College Connections | Peter Selgin talks about his new memoir The Inventors
Writer Peter Selgin is a dramatist, essayist, novelist and artist and a member of the faculty corps at Georgia College and the author of the new memoir The Inventors.
The Inventors is a memoir about the relationships Selgin shared with his father...Forward
“Peter Selgin’s The Inventors examines the lives of two men who hid their pasts: Self-Made Men,” by Amy S. Mercer for the Charleston City Paper
Peter Selgin believes that every person is a product of their own invention. “We don’t have a faithful grasp of who we are, and we base our identities on a blend of memory and a mythology,” Selgin says. “Memories are about as reliable as myths. Like...Forward
LitReactor Bookshots: Violation: Collected Essays by Sallie Tisdale reviewed by Keith Rawson
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The essays in ‘Violation’ are all lushly written and teeming with memory and insight.
Who wrote it?
Award winning mega-essayist, Sallie Tisdale.
Invent a new title for this book:...Forward
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Lit Fest is our two-week celebration of the literary arts, with workshops in fiction, nonfiction, memoir, poetry, and more. During Lit Fest, we host events day and night—including salons and business panels, free readings, visiting authors, a book fair, and the opening and closing parties.
Lit Fest 2016 will take place from June 3-17. Juried workshop instructors include returning faculty Steve Almond, Lidia Yuknavitch, Rebecca Makkai, and Emily Rapp Black, as well as newbies Ben Lerner, Jenny Offill, Jericho Brown, Alexandra Fuller, and Li-Young Lee. We’ll also be offering a weeklong, non-juried workshop with Claire Vaye Watkins.
For more details, go to Lit Fest.
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Peter Selgin reads from his memoir, The Inventors, at Elliott Bay Books
Observations on books and publishing
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To those who feel like they don’t belong: there is beauty in being a misfit. Author Lidia Yuknavitch shares her own wayward journey in an intimate recollection of patchwork stories about loss, shame...Forward
Posted by Rhonda Hughes on 18 May 2016
“The Building” Bethel, Connecticut, 1970
On the way home from the teacher’s cottage that day you stopped at the Building, the converted barn structure that was your father’s laboratory. During...Forward
Posted by Rhonda Hughes on 16 May 2016
I’ll pay for that! That is smart anyway you look at it. The Feds are removing convict and felon from the lexicon of incarceration. It’s a stigmatism once removed allowing reentry. If someone wants to...Forward
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