Peter Selgin discusses his memoir, The Inventors (Hawthorne Books), with Ariel Gore.
Praise for Peter Selgin:
"Peter Selgin is a born writer, capable of taking any subject and exploring it from a new angle, with wit, grace, and erudition." -- Oliver Sacks
"This story is about what we make and how we make it. Selves, lives, love stories, life stories, death stories. It is also the story of how creation and destruction are always the other side of each other. And like the lyric language so gorgeously invented in this book that it nearly killed me, its meanings are endlessly in us. Writers live within language, and so in some ways, you might say we are at the epicenter." -- Lidia Yuknavitch
"The Inventors is a philosophical memoir that grapples with some of the questions regarding how we invent ourselves and how we in turn are invented by others, particularly our mentors. Thanks to Selgin’s autobiographical candor and the vivid details of his telling, these puzzles of identity seem as fresh, engaging, and befuddling as they were when they first bubbled to the surface of our thinking. A smart, tender, compelling book." -- Billy Collins
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Praise for Peter Selgin:
"Peter Selgin is a born writer, capable of taking any subject and exploring it from a new angle, with wit, grace, and erudition." -- Oliver Sacks
"This story is about what we make and how we make it. Selves, lives, love stories, life stories, death stories. It is also the story of how creation and destruction are always the other side of each other. And like the lyric language so gorgeously invented in this book that it nearly killed me, its meanings are endlessly in us. Writers live within language, and so in some ways, you might say we are at the epicenter." -- Lidia Yuknavitch
"The Inventors is a philosophical memoir that grapples with some of the questions regarding how we invent ourselves and how we in turn are invented by others, particularly our mentors. Thanks to Selgin’s autobiographical candor and the vivid details of his telling, these puzzles of identity seem as fresh, engaging, and befuddling as they were when they first bubbled to the surface of our thinking. A smart, tender, compelling book." -- Billy Collins
Peter Selgin discusses his memoir, The Inventors (Hawthorne Books), with Ariel Gore.
Praise for Peter Selgin:
"Peter Selgin is a born writer, capable of taking any subject and exploring it from a new angle, with wit, grace, and erudition." -- Oliver Sacks
"This story is about what we make and how we make it. Selves, lives, love stories, life stories, death stories. It is also the story of how creation and destruction are always the other side of each other. And like the lyric language so gorgeously invented in this book that it nearly killed me, its meanings are endlessly in us. Writers live within language, and so in some ways, you might say we are at the epicenter." -- Lidia Yuknavitch
"The Inventors is a philosophical memoir that grapples with some of the questions regarding how we invent ourselves and how we in turn are invented by others, particularly our mentors. Thanks to Selgin’s autobiographical candor and the vivid details of his telling, these puzzles of identity seem as fresh, engaging, and befuddling as they were when they first bubbled to the surface of our thinking. A smart, tender, compelling book." -- Billy Collins
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Praise for Peter Selgin:
"Peter Selgin is a born writer, capable of taking any subject and exploring it from a new angle, with wit, grace, and erudition." -- Oliver Sacks
"This story is about what we make and how we make it. Selves, lives, love stories, life stories, death stories. It is also the story of how creation and destruction are always the other side of each other. And like the lyric language so gorgeously invented in this book that it nearly killed me, its meanings are endlessly in us. Writers live within language, and so in some ways, you might say we are at the epicenter." -- Lidia Yuknavitch
"The Inventors is a philosophical memoir that grapples with some of the questions regarding how we invent ourselves and how we in turn are invented by others, particularly our mentors. Thanks to Selgin’s autobiographical candor and the vivid details of his telling, these puzzles of identity seem as fresh, engaging, and befuddling as they were when they first bubbled to the surface of our thinking. A smart, tender, compelling book." -- Billy Collins
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