Letters to a Best Friend

by Richard Selzer, M.D., HS ’61; Peter Josyph, editor (SUNY Press) This book is the record of two decades of written conversation between two friends: Selzer, the essayist, short story writer, and former surgeon; and Peter Josyph, a New York painter, actor, and filmmaker who began the correspondence in 1988. The book is an edited selection of the thousands of letters that Selzer wrote about his life, his work, and his friendship with Josyph.