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Peter Selgin’s writing has appeared in Best American Essays 2006 (Houghton Mifflin), and he is the author of By Cunning & Craft: Sound Advice and Practical Wisdom for Fiction Writers (Writer’s Digest Books). He leads an annual writing workshop in Italy and lives in the Bronx, New York.
I am the “man from ’Stanbul.” Yes, I cannot pee. Oh, I can squeeze out a few drops here and there. I can dribble; I can even trickle. Occasionally what passes for a stream arcs into the commode. But it’s no McDonald’s golden arch, let me tell you, not the yellow rainbow of satisfaction I once knew so well, the Victoria Falls of my not-so-distant youth.
June 2007Sugar suspected I was a fruitcake because of my friendship with Mr. Quick, which began during my freshman year. Sugar had learned about it from my mother. (My father was dead.)
April 2005Has something we published moved you? Fired you up? Did we miss the mark? We’d love to hear about it.
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