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  • Duplicity

    by Peter Selgin ...
    Dispatched by their mother to learn why his estranged twin brother Gregory (or "Brock Jones, PhD," as he's known to fans of his bestselling self-help book Coffee, Black) has disappeared, Stewart Detweiler drives 1,500 miles to find his twin hanging from a ceiling beam in their deceased father's lakeside A-frame. But instead of reporting him dead, Stewart decides to become him. As he sees it, he's ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Boy's Guide to Outer Space

    by Peter Selgin ...
    A poignant coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of the Space Race and small-town secrets.In 1963 Hattertown, Connecticut, Leo "Half" Napoli navigates adolescence, mourning his father while dreaming of outer space. He and his friends, the Back Shop Boys, become obsessed with the mysterious Man in Blue, a local recluse. As Half spies on him, an unlikely friendship forms, revealing the ... Read more

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  • Duplicity

    by Peter Selgin ...
    WINNER: 2021 NATIONAL INDIE EXCELLENCE AWARD Dispatched by their mother to learn why his estranged twin brother Gregory (or "Brock Jones, PhD," as he's known to fans of his bestselling self-help book Coffee, Black) has disappeared, Stewart Detweiler drives 1,500 miles to find his twin hanging from a ceiling beam in their deceased father's lakeside A-frame. But instead of reporting him dead, ... Read more

    $8.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Life Goes to the Movies

    by Peter Selgin ...
    A tour de force, Life Goes to the Movies is the love story of two straight men: a dark devil of a Vietnam vet-turned-filmmaker, and the naive Italian American innocent who follows him to the edge of madness and beyond. Funny, engaging, and entertaining, this is just a great story told well.Peter Selgin's short story collection Drowning Lessons won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. He ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Your First Page

    First Pages and What They Tell Us about the Pages that Follow Them

    by Peter Selgin ...
    Your First Page is unlike any other craft book on writing. It is based on the premise that practically everything that can go right or wrong in a work of fiction or memoir goes wrong or right on the first page. Those first 300 or so words function like canaries in coal mines, forecasting success or predicting trouble. They establish the crucial bond between writer and reader, setting them off ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • The Inventors

    A Memoir

    by Peter Selgin ...
    "A superb work of memory that unfolds like a great suspense novel." —Sigrid Nunez, author of Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan SontagFall, 1970. At the start of eighth grade, Peter Selgin fell in love with the young teacher who'd arrived from Oxford in Frye boots, with long hair, and a passion for his students that was intense and unorthodox. The son of an emotionally remote inventor, Peter was also ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Drowning Lessons

    Stories

    by Peter Selgin ...
    Series series
    The stories in Drowning Lessons engage water as both a vital and a potentially hazardous presence in our lives. "You can touch water," says Peter Selgin, "you can taste it and feel its temperature, you can even hold it in your hands. Still it remains elusive, ill-defined, shaped only by what surrounds or contains it."With empathy and wit Selgin introduces us to characters navigating the choppy ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Rituals to Observe

    Stories about Holidays from the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction

    by Gail Galloway Adams, David Crouse, Molly Giles, Carole L. Glickfeld, Jacquelin Gorman, Peter LaSalle, Karin Lin-Greenberg, Becky Mandelbaum, Alyce Miller, Dianne Nelson Oberhansly, Peter Selgin, Hugh Sheehy, Sandra Thompson ...
    Series Book 112 - Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
    These stories amount to something more than a celebration of the holidays dotting our calendars from month to month. Even though holidays can occasion a return to the familiar, these stories challenge traditional associations. Each story serves to complicate how we observe the human observation of holidays and offers a nuanced understanding of related themes such as family and motherhood, travel, ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

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  • The Pleasures of the Damned

    Poems, 1951-1993

    by Charles Bukowski ...
    “The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.”—Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author“He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.”—Leonard Cohen, songwriterThe Pleasures of the Damned features selected later poetry of Charles Bukowski, America’s most influential and imitated American poet.To his legions of fans, Charles Bukowski was—and remains—a counterculture icon. A hard-drinking wild man of ... Read more

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  • Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame

    by Charles Bukowski ...
    “The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.”—Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author“He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.”—Leonard Cohen, songwriterBurning in Water, Drowning in Flame is poetry full of gambling, drinking and women. Charles Bukowski writes realistically about the seedy underbelly of life.From the horse track to the flophouse, these are dispatches from the edge.Gritty Poetry: ... Read more

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  • Essential Bukowski

    Poetry

    by Charles Bukowski ...
    Edited by Abel Debritto, the definitive collection of American poetry from an influential writer whose transgressive legacy and raw, funny, and acutely observant writing has left an enduring mark on modern culture.Few writers have so brilliantly and poignantly conjured the desperation and absurdity of ordinary life as Charles Bukowski. Resonant with his powerful, perceptive voice, his visceral, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • sifting through the madness for the word, the line, the way

    New Poems

    by Charles Bukowski ...
    One of the most recognizable poets of the last century, Charles Bukowski is simultaneously a common man and an icon of urban depravity. He uses strong, blunt language to describe life as he lives it, and through it all charts the mutations of morality in modern America.Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way is a treasure trove of confessional poetry written towards then end of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD