Books & Other Writings

I fell in love with the shapes of words, with the rhythms of prose and the textures of paragraphs. One day, when I was an art student at Pratt, I turned on the little black and white portable TV in my dorm room and Richard Burton's face filled the screen. As the camera closed in on his cherubic lips he muttered something about "bergin," "bergin and water." I kept watching, mesmerized.

Eventually I realized I was seeing Mike Nichol's film version of the play, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee. The next morning at the Pratt library, among the glass-floored stacks, I found a copy of the play and read it, amazed to see what had gripped me reduced to a series of black marks on paper: words. By the time I turned the last page I'd made up my mind: I'd be a writer; I'd write.

Read an interview with Peter Selgin at Pif Magazine


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Coming in Spring 2009
Life Goes to the Movies
From Dzanc Books
2nd Place 2007 AWP Award
Finalist: James Jones 1st Novel Fellowship







Coming in Fall 2008
Drowning Lessons
Winner of the 2007
Flannery O'Connor Award

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