Drowing Lessons by Peter Selgin Due Out October 15 2008

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Drowning Lessons: stories by Peter Selgin
Winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for 2008
The University of Georgia Press, October 15, 2008
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"There is nothing but water in the holy pools. I know, I have been swimming in them."--Kabir
-- HUDSON VALLEY WRITER'S CENTER
-- CORNELIA STREET CAFE
-- FORTHCOMING FROM DZANC BOOKS, April 2009
-- BY CUNNING & CRAFT, a Guide for Fiction Writers
-- Forthcoming: THE SECRET LIFE OF FICTION

Join me in celebrating the publication of my first book of stories, Drowning Lessons, winner of the 2008 Flannery O'Connor Award.

Please mark the dates! I hope to see you!

"Peter Selgin's writing creates a current that will carry readers farther than they would ever have expected, and leave them on a new shore."--Hannah Tinti, author of The Good Thief

"Thank goodness for Peter Selgin, who shares with us the mysteries of the human
heart in this electric, revealing collection."--Benjamin Percy, author of Refresh,Refresh

"A stellar collection deserving recognition. High emotional intelligence, empathy, courage, and intellectual curiosity fuel this collection, giving it a rare narrative fire beyond the obvious and admirable excellence of craft."--Melissa Pritchard, author of Late Bloomer

HUDSON VALLEY WRITER'S CENTER
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Reading with Gary Gildner, author of Blue Like the Heavens, New & Selected Poems
Hudson Valley Writer's Center
300 Riverside Drive, Sleepy Hollow, NY 10591
at the Philipse Manor Train Station
Information at: http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001FbOzg7FTO-yHyH6ctnd-uvO62aBTW_Ytpk3QE2HsgqxE5kolkuq_2mTGeM4CU6b9QDnTtENyGDW14-TYRt3zxw3qAhFZU0abZ5aAvcEV1PvP-0Nljhq7hg==
Phone: 814-332-5953
Sunday, October 12, 4:30 p.m.

CORNELIA STREET CAFE
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Reading with Dustin Beall Smith,author of Key Grip, a Memoir of Endless
Consequences
Cornelia Street Cafe
29 Cornelia Street, NYC
For information: visit
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phone: (212) 989-9319
Sunday, October 19, 6:00 p.m.

CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE DROWNING LESSONS


FORTHCOMING FROM DZANC BOOKS, April 2009
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Life Goes to the Movies, a novel

"At the center of Life Goes to the Movies is Dwaine Fitzgibbon, a young filmmaker with a wild imagination and inexhaustible ambition. For Dwaine, every experience is potential material for the great film he's going to make, and everyone he meets becomes a part of his supporting cast. Swept up into the performance that is Dwaine's life, the novel's narrator, Nigel DePoli, describes their fraught friendship as it intensifies and evolves through the years. It's a riveting story, artfully constructed and told with wit, precision, and sensitivity."--Joanna Scott, author of Everybody Loves Somebody--Finalist, James Jones First Novel Fellowship --Finalist, AWP Award for the Novel; Forthcoming from Dzanc Books



BY CUNNING & CRAFT, a Guide for Fiction Writers
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"There is craft and there is cunning. There is the struggle to get published at all. But there is also the chance that you will do something extraordinary. Peter Selgin illustrates the tricks, both basic and sophisticated. But greatness is what he's really interested in. He thrusts the readers into the company of those who wrote magnificently. Salinger is quoted, Hemingway, Thomas Mann, E.M. Forster, John Gardner. 'This book is for serious writers of all levels,' he writes in the beginning, and he's talking about intentions. If you mean to shoot for the stars, then this book is for you."--Benjamin Cheever, author of The Good Nanny

"A masterpiece of writing about writing. If, like Scheherazade, you had to spin out a story under threat of death, this is the how-to book to read. It's filled with
thoughtful, nuanced advice from a teacher/writer who actually writes--and writes beautifully and with great humor. The list of rejected stories is worth the price of the whole book."--Nora Gallagher, author of Changing Light

TO PURCHASE BY CUNNING & CRAFT CLICK HERE


Forthcoming: THE SECRET LIFE OF FICTION
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The Secret Life of Fiction: 199 Meditations on Works-in-Progress, is a book meant not only for aspiring and accomplished writers of fiction, but for anyone with an interest in how great fiction gets (and doesn't get) written. Like Francine Prose's enormously successful Reading Like a Writer, it offers an entertainingly erudite glimpse into the fiction writer's processes and pitfalls. But while that work examines only masterpieces (as does James Wood's How Fiction Works), The Secret Life of Fiction provides examples both exemplary and cautionary from works of novices and masters. It shows readers not only how fiction "works," but how and why it often fails to work.

Forthcoming from Writer's Digest Books
(date TBA)

June, 2009 Writing Workshop is Vitorchiano, Italy

FOR OTHER EVENTS & WORKSHOPS CLICK HERE

Contact Information

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email:
peter@peterselgin.com
web:
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