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Mortal Lessons:
Notes on the Art
of Surgery

Armstrong Atlantic State University
Savannah Reads Selzer
April 3-6, 2006


Community Events


PROGRAM for 2006
CAMPUS READ

April 3-6, 2006

CAMPUS EVENTS

COMMUNITY EVENTS

NOTES on Selzer's
NOTES

(brief summaries of
the essays in
Mortal Lessons)


RICHARD SELZER

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Richard Selzer discusses his career as a doctor and writer.
(Columbia University,
© Fathom Knowledge Network, 2002)

-Selzer reads his short story "Mercy"
(Columbia University,
© Fathom Knowledge Network, 2002)

-Interview with Doctor/Writer: Richard Selzer, by Sylvia K. (TeenTalk, 2005)

-Longtime Surgeon Carves Out Second Career as Writer, interview by Bill Schu (Feb. 2000)

-Notes on Dr. Selzer, by Noah Raizman (2004)


Mortal Lessons
and other works by  Richard Selzer


-"The Masked Marvel's Last Toehold" from Confessions of a Knife (1979)

-"Whither Thou Goest"
from The Doctor Stories
by Richard Selzer (Picador)


COMMUNITY READS

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Citywide Book Clubs

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Library of Congress
Georgia Center for the Book


AASU Campus Read 2004
Flannery O'Connor

AASU City Read 2005
Ernest Gaines


Purchase Mortal Lessons

Mortal Lessons,
by Richard Selzer, may be purchased from such local booksellers as Shavers Book Store (326 Bull Street), Books-a-Million (8102 Abercorn Street), Barnes & Noble (Oglethorpe Mall), and Media Play (11701 Abercorn Street).   The novel is also available from online book sellers, including Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Powells.


 


Motivate your students to read, write and draw with

Savannah Reads Selzer

Attend a free information session for K-12 teachers and academic coaches

 

Tuesday, March 21, 2006
3:30-4:30 p.m.
Gamble 101
Armstrong Atlantic State University

  • Free  professional learning hour
  • A sample GPS ELA unit
  • Refreshments
  •  

Contacts: Dr. Margaret Walworth, 921-5545
walworma@mail.armstrong.edu 

or Pat West, 921-5692
westpatr@mail.armstrong.edu
 

For sample writing prompts, web resources, and  suggested books for younger readers, please log on  to
www.cgwp.armstrong.edu


Join a discussion of Richard Selzer's Mortal Lessons hosted by Sigma Tau Delta at the Sentient Bean (13 E. Park Ave.) Wednesday, March 29th at 7 p.m.  Contact Karen White at bigmanlybelt@yahoo.com for more information.


        

Please direct any questions to Dr. Beth Howells, Director of Composition, Department of LL&P: 927-5218, or howellbe@mail.armstrong.edu

See also UNIVERSITY EVENTS for Savannah Reads Selzer.



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