In 1988, when author and former surgeon Richard Selzer answered a letter from Peter Josyph, a New York artist he had met, he did not know that he was embarking on the most enduring correspondence of his life. In thousands of letters, written in longhand over the course of two decades, Selzer devoted himself to the epistolary art—an art that, even among writers, has become increasingly rare in an age of cell phones, e-mails, and text messaging. ‘Letters are definitely a genre, ‘ Selzer says, ‘and I think it’s one of the best.’ As this lively and intimate collection demonstrates, Richard Selzer is one of its master practitioners.
In spontaneous, conversational style, Selzer writes about his life and work with the unpredictable vision and sharpness of wit that, in his stories, memoirs, and personal essays, have made his reputation as one of the great prose stylists of his day. It is also the record of a friendship. As Peter Josyph remarks in his introduction, ‘With a good correspondence, as with the blowing between horn players improvising off each other’s riffs, it isn’t easy to say whether it’s art or society because it is both of them at once. This is a book about two men who value a friendship balanced upon words; men for whose friendship the phone is a thief; men who are comfortable with the U.S. mail.’
In spontaneous, conversational style, Selzer writes about his life and work with the unpredictable vision and sharpness of wit that, in his stories, memoirs, and personal essays, have made his reputation as one of the great prose stylists of his day. It is also the record of a friendship. As Peter Josyph remarks in his introduction, ‘With a good correspondence, as with the blowing between horn players improvising off each other’s riffs, it isn’t easy to say whether it’s art or society because it is both of them at once. This is a book about two men who value a friendship balanced upon words; men for whose friendship the phone is a thief; men who are comfortable with the U.S. mail.’
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表中的内容
PrefaceCOME ON UP AND HAVE A FINE DAY
Peter Josyph
THE WAY IT IS HERE
1988
SKEEPWALKING AND DAYDREAMING
1989
INTO THE CAVE OF AEOLUS
1990
LAZARUS RISING
1991
DRIVING THE QUILL
1992
关于作者
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, includingRituals 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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语言 英语 ● 格式 PDF ● 网页 261 ● ISBN 9781438427201 ● 文件大小 22.1 MB ● 编辑 Peter Josyph ● 出版者 State University of New York Press ● 发布时间 2009 ● 下载 24 个月 ● 货币 EUR ● ID 7665785 ● 复制保护 Adobe DRM
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