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A lively and intimate selection of letters on life, literature, and art from one of America's finest prose stylists.

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"""...collectively [the letters] reveal a brooding Selzer, a man continually doubting himself as a writer, doubting his decision to leave surgery; yet we also see a man capable of soaring to almost giddy heights, sustained by a tart tongue and a tendency to veer toward the dramatic. He is a man of many voices. Selzer and Josyph seem to stabilize each other-Richard the older always encouraging Peter the younger, always praising ... the less-experienced writer, who is also a painter, playwright, actor, raconteur ... Selzer's letters contain Josyph; they answer him in sustained conversation over a long period of time-their cumulative effect of value to both scholar and common reader."" - Sewanee Review ""Richard Selzer has long been a favorite of mine. His stories are fascinating."" - Annie Dillard, author of Tickets for a Prayer Wheel"

""...collectively [the letters] reveal a brooding Selzer, a man continually doubting himself as a writer, doubting his decision to leave surgery; yet we also see a man capable of soaring to almost giddy heights, sustained by a tart tongue and a tendency to veer toward the dramatic. He is a man of many voices. Selzer and Josyph seem to stabilize each other-Richard the older always encouraging Peter the younger, always praising ... the less-experienced writer, who is also a painter, playwright, actor, raconteur ... Selzer's letters contain Josyph; they answer him in sustained conversation over a long period of time-their cumulative effect of value to both scholar and common reader."" - Sewanee Review ""Richard Selzer has long been a favorite of mine. His stories are fascinating."" - Annie Dillard, author of Tickets for a Prayer Wheel

...collectively [the letters] reveal a brooding Selzer, a man continually doubting himself as a writer, doubting his decision to leave surgery; yet we also see a man capable of soaring to almost giddy heights, sustained by a tart tongue and a tendency to veer toward the dramatic. He is a man of many voices. Selzer and Josyph seem to stabilize each other-Richard the older always encouraging Peter the younger, always praising ... the less-experienced writer, who is also a painter, playwright, actor, raconteur ... Selzer's letters contain Josyph; they answer him in sustained conversation over a long period of time-their cumulative effect of value to both scholar and common reader. - Sewanee Review Richard Selzer has long been a favorite of mine. His stories are fascinating. - Annie Dillard, author of Tickets for a Prayer Wheel

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Richard Selzer is a former surgeon and professor at the Yale School of Medicine. He is also the author of many books of short stories and essays, including Rituals of Surgery; Confessions of a Knife; The Exact Location of the Soul; and Knife Song Korea: A Novel, also published by SUNY Press. He has been honored with a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Magazine Award, the Pushcart Prize, and the American Medical Writers Award. He lives in New Haven. Peter Josyph is a writer, painter, actor, and filmmaker. He is author of Liberty Street: Encounters at Ground Zero; What One Man Said to Another: Talks with Richard Selzer; and The Wounded River: The Civil War Letters of John Vance Lauderdale, M.D., which was a New York Times Notable Book in 1993. He directed the award-winning documentary Liberty Street: Alive at Ground Zero. He lives on Long Island.

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