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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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Songs That Have Hummed Me

Posted on February 18, 2009 by Peter Selgin

Some time ago I stopped being able to listen to music when writing. First I had to cut out music with words, then strong rhythms, then all forms of percussion. For a while I listened to movie scores, but soon … Continue reading →

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Was This Review Helpful? The Search for an Unassailable Masterpiece

Posted on February 2, 2009 by Peter Selgin

Not long ago I asked the young students in a fiction workshop I was teaching to name a few novels that, in their view, stood the best chance of becoming seminal works of their generation. Among titles that came up … Continue reading →

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