Friday, Apr. 22, 12 pm, author Peter Selgin discusses his new memoir The Inventors (Hawthorne Books, pb., 416 pp, $19), Blue Bicycle Books. Please join us for a glass of wine and dessert.
Please note that this event has been moved to the bookstore and is free and open to the public.
About the book: The Inventors follows the author’s relationship with two men, both inventors of sorts, his emotionally remote father and a passionate and unorthodox teacher with whom he remained in touch with far past the eighth grade. The Inventors tells the story of a man’s search for his father and a boy’s relationship with his teacher, and how these two enigmas shaped that boy’s journey into manhood, filling him with a sense of his own unique destiny. It is a story of promises kept and broken as the author uncovers the truth about both men, and about himself.
About the Author: Peter Selgin is the author of Drowning Lessons, winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Fiction, a novel, two books on fiction writing, several plays and children’s books. His essays have won many awards and honors, including six citations and two selections for the Best American anthologies, in which the title essay of his collection appears. Selgin is the prose editor of Alimentum: The Literature of Food” and nonfiction editor and art director of “Arts & Letters.” He is Assistant Professor of English at Georgia College and an associate faculty member of Antioch University’s Creative Writing MFA program.
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