Author Archives: Peter Selgin

About Peter Selgin

Peter Selgin is the author of Drowning Lessons, winner of the 2007 Flannery O’Connor Award for Fiction, Life Goes to the Movies, a novel, two books on the craft of fiction, and several children’s books. His memoir, Confessions of a Left-Handed Man, was short-listed for the William Saroyan International Prize. His latest novel, The Water Master, won the William Faulkner Society Prize, selected by Random House Senior Editor Will Murphy. His work has won the Missouri Review Editors’ Prize, the Dana Award, six Best American Essay notable essay citations, and two selections for the Best American series. A second memoir, The Inventors, is forthcoming from Hawthorne Books in April of 2016. He teaches at Antioch University’s MFA program and is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Georgia College & State University.

Bella Luna

Posted on March 24, 2014 by Peter Selgin

Driving to his half-time teaching job in New Jersey (how he hates this gloomy morning commute, especially now that Daylight Savings Time has robbed him of an hour, turning 5 a.m. into 6 a.m.—the lights on, defroster blowing, wipers thwacking … Continue reading →

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My New York: I

Posted on March 24, 2014 by Peter Selgin

His “business trips,” my father called them. My brother George and I took turns, one of us going every other Friday. The first time I would have been five or six years old. It took only an hour or so … Continue reading →

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Geography is My Major

Posted on March 24, 2014 by Peter Selgin

For over a year—since her husband passed away—Florence had lived alone in her Yonkers apartment overlooking the wide, silent Hudson River. She had her plants, her books, her piano. All in all, she felt she had done a good job … Continue reading →

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Postmodernism’s Smoking Circuits

Posted on March 24, 2014 by Peter Selgin

Preparing the syllabi for my courses. The hardest is the one for a “special topics” course called “Unclassifiables,” for which I am entirely to blame. I thought it might be fun to do a survey of books that bend and … Continue reading →

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