Category Archives: Dreaming on Paper

Little Gray Men

Posted on February 23, 2009 by Peter Selgin

In the early 1960’s, before the Kennedy assassination and Little Rock, before “I have a dream,” on a lonesome country road in New Hampshire, a mixed-race couple, him black, her white, encounter a flying saucer, which assails them with its … Continue reading →

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Head Paintings

Posted on February 21, 2009 by Peter Selgin

In my waking life, I’ve been a figurative painter and illustrator. But in my dreams, or just lying in bed, I was an abstract expressionist. For years I dreamed paintings—if “dreaming” is the right word, since often the paintings appeared … Continue reading →

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John Hoyer Updike, 1932 – 2009

Posted on January 31, 2009 by Peter Selgin

How sad to learn that writing and publishing 60 books—many superb—does not make one immortal. He never won the Nobel Prize. He didn’t need to. The quality of his best work will carry him. His plots weren’t memorable; unlike Dickens … Continue reading →

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Six Stories That Influenced Me

Posted on January 28, 2009 by Peter Selgin

In no special order: 1. A Painful Case—James Joyce. Like everyone else in college I had to read Joyce’s Dubliners. I remember being touched by a passage in “A Painful Case” where the protagonist’s entire sad existence is equated with … Continue reading →

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