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I post thoughts, memories, stories, novels, plays, essays, reading lists,
genealogical research, info about ebooks for sale, and matters of interest to
friends and family. This isn't your typical web. It's meant to be
idiosyncratic and fun. I welcome feedback and suggestions.
I'm finally in a position to write fiction full-time. Six of my recently published novels (Parallel Lives, Beyond
the 4th Door, Nevermind, Breeze, Shakespeare's Twin Sister, and
To Gether Tales) overlap and echo in interesting ways, with stories
inside stories and touches of magical realism and alternate history. This is
not by intent, but rather that all of them grew from my life experiences and
from exploring themes that matter to me. They can be read in any order. They
are independent stories, with stylistic and thematic overlaps. Each creates a
different view of reality, a different way of trying to understand the
mysteries of life. All
Things That Matter Press published all of those in 2020 - 2022 as well as Echoes
from the Attic, a suspense novel which I co-wrote with Ethel Kaiden.
Meanwhile Booklocker
has published Grandad Jokes: 3000 jokes on Trump and other nonsense, Why Knot? a collection of
essays, a new edition of The Lizard
of Oz and Other Stories, We All Are
Shakespeare, and We First
Met in Ithaca or Was It Eden? Grandad Jokes and Why Knot?
both won awards in the 2022 CT Press Club Contest. My latest novel is Sing
Their Wrath, which has not yet been published. I'm now returning to the
story of Alexander Bulatovich. I am rewriting my historical novel The Name
of Hero, first published over 40 years ago, and I'm writing the rest of the
story (which was planned as a trilogy). I now plan it to be a single large
novel, now entitled the Bulatovich Saga: Soul Survivor.
I'm
also the publisher of Seltzer
Books, with over 14,000 time-tested books in ebook format, available
for sale through Barnes & Noble (Nook), Kobo, Apple, Google Play, and
PublishDrive. Earlier, I published entire libraries of books on CD and DVD
primarily for the blind, who used "screen readers" to convert the
text to voice. This included a 4-DVD set with over 20,000 books for just $149.
I also made a quixotic attempt to build and run my own ebook store, Quench,
trying to single-handedly compete with the likes of Amazon. My publishing
company was originally known as B&R Samizdat Express and consisted of just
my late wife Barbara (B) and me Richard (R). Samizdat means
"self-published" in Russian.
In the early days of the Web, I worked for Digital Equipment's Internet
Business Group as their "Internet evangelist." When the company was
swallowed by Compaq (which was later swallowed by Hewlett-Packard) I worked
independently as an Internet marketing consultant, writing extensively about
business on the Internet. Many of the books, articles, and speeches I wrote back then
are available here. My AltaVista
Search Revolution was the first consumer-oriented book about search
engines. Library Journal, called it "indispensable". My Web Business Boot Camp was
a pioneering guidebook for Internet start-ups .It is now available for free at
this website.
My original samizdat.com web site, which I used as a sandbox to test ideas
about the Web, has been preserved by the Internet Archive as part of their
Wayback Machine. They have stored 666 versions of that web site, captured
from November 1996 to September 2017. This link takes you
to the part of the archive that is devoted to samizdat.com. Select the date
you are interested in; then you can browse the archive the same as you do the
live web, clicking on link after link. Everything from the web site is
there, including all the issues of my Internet-on-a-Disk newsletter and the
hundreds of articles from my blog. (They now
archive seltzerbooks.com as well)
Richard Seltzer, seltzer@seltzerbooks.com
Podcast interview of me (June 2023) --Go to wherever you get your
podcasts and search for Woodbury Writes and Richard Seltzer. You can also hear it on YouTube
Follow me on Twitter twitter.com/SeltzerBooks
My
author page at Amazon
My author page at Goodreads
My
blog at Goodreads
List of
my published books
Medium account
with 600+ stories, essays, and poems
YouTube
videos of me reading some of my stories and excerpts from my novels
Web sites of All Things
That Matter Press Authors
Websites of
Twitter friends
We First Met in Ithaca, or Was It
Eden?
Elle and Oz, strangers ready
to restart their lives, meet by chance and flirtatiously swap stories in a dark
abandoned house.
They soon sense that these stories are coming from an unknown source.
It's as if they are watching the stories rather than telling them.
Then they become actors inside the stories, seeing and hearing as if they were
the characters,
affecting outcomes but still conscious of their separate contemporary
selves in the dark abandoned house,
their attraction heightened by this mysterious adventure.
The stories transform: the two become characters from the Odyssey and Genesis,
facing challenges in previous lives, challenges that they meet head-on .
Finally, and they find themselves in a future where whole populations have
transferred themselves to (or been absorbed into) a massive computer network.
The human cycle of birth, death, and rebirth will end. They will live in that
network forever.
But Elle and Oz have a choice.
We All Are Shakespeare
Shakespeare literally comes alive.
Liam knows Shakespeare. All of Shakespeare. Every word of every play. No one
knows how or why. But tell him a line, and he'll go into a trance and perform
the whole play brilliantly.
He performs at the local beach pavilion, play after play. Audiences swell,
despite obstacles, until an unruly crowd trashes this quiet town, and the show
shuts down.
Then a professor prompts Liam to recite a lost Shakespeare play and gets it
staged at the Yale Bowl.
Years later, something even more extraordinary happens -- a Spartacus moment.
132 short essays -- some fun, some profound.
Intriguing observations based on common sense logic.
Ideas that could
change your life or the world.
"I don't think
outside the box. The very notion of 'the box' is an illusion taht limits the
range of topics, squashes curiosity and creativity, and precludes innovative
solutions. Please join me on my journey of exploration."
Categories covered:
Questions Big and Small
Identity, Memory, and Communication
Understanding Our World
Politics and Government
Literature, Reading, and Writing
Impact of Technology
History
Business and Product Ideas
Everyday Life
A romantic suspense novel.
Five strangers, two men and three women, share a Back Bay Boston
apartment like a multi-generational family.
High-tech high
jinks, vengeful jealousy, and violent death combine
to complicate lives and loves.
The
Lizard of Oz and Other Stories
Humorous fantasy for children and for adults who share stories with them.
An elementary school class sets out on a field trip to bring
back enchantment
to the world. They learn that you hae to go under the world to stand under it
and understand it. And there are many levels of understanding. They meet
such characters as Mr. Shermin (who used to be a teacher until he decided
to be a fish, and then he knew how to turn himself into a fish, which not
many people, even teachers, know how to do). Humpty Dumpty (who fell for
a little blue wallflower), Prince Frog (who would rather be a frog than a
prince
because that's much less trouble), Sir Real (who has cereal instead of brains),
Lewis Carroll, the Knights of the Merry-Go-Round Table, the Mothers of Fact
(Miss Hap, Miss Take, and Miss Fortune), Mr. Plato, Daniel Boone, and
Joan of Noah's Ark.
Imagine The Phatom Tollboth crossing paths with a fifth grade class in
The Magic School Bus.
Grandad Jokes
An antidote to social distancing, political chaos, environmental crisis, and
war.
Laughs to help you get back to feeling normal.
3000 jokes, 500 pages, a pound and a half of laughs.
Grouped as:
Trump and Company
Nonsensical Science, Philosophy, History, and Religion
Letter, Number, and Grammar Play
Speaking in Tongues - Word Play in Two Languages
Never Grow Up - General Fun
Bedtime Whimsy and Romance
Pithy jokes for every taste and mood and occasion.
To Gether Tales
This bittersweet comedy and romance has touches of tragedy and magic. Writing during the pandemic and feeling nostalgia for
what has been lost, the narrator, Abe, recounts stories told around the dinner
table on a Caribbean cruise two years before.
Abe explains the title:
"I'm writing from the midst of this crisis,
not with the wisdom of hindsight. Even if it gets no worse than it is right
now, much has been lost.
"I'm hoping that we can gether.
That's a word that isn't in the dictionary.
"To gether is to find new
ways to be together, new ways to meet, to bond, to love.
"Even when physically isolated, we can come
together in spirit, to share experiences and emotions to the point that we are
intimately connected.”
"In any case, may we always treasure
our normal life, knowing, as we now know, that it is fragile and
should never be taken for granted."
On one level, To Gether Tales is a collection of stories told around a dinner table. But it's also a novel, in which themes echo from one story to another and tellers both disguise and reveal themselves through what they say, all woven together in the frame of the narrator.
first review --
5.0 out of 5 stars Affairs to Remember
Reviewed in the United States on March 8, 2022
Verified Purchase
A refreshing
antidote to the struggles borne of the pandemic, politics and threatening
conflicts that haunt our daily lives. Richard Seltzer’s “To Gether Tales” takes
us on an unusual ocean cruise that elevates our spirits and counteracts the
current climate of cynicism and despair. Captivating, intimate and poignant
stories brimming with romance, friendship, warmth, and humor bring a group of
voyagers together. Seltzer's inventive and engrossing writing enables us to
join the journey and participate as if we were on board, ourselves. We
disembark feeling enchanted, renewed and reinvigorated.
The Princess Tango, a story from To Gether
Tales, read by the author (YouTube video)
Shakespeare's Twin Sister
Shakespeare's twin sister wakes up in the body of a 99-year-old woman in a
nursing home in 1987. Kate has quite a tale to tell:
-- her coming-of-age story,
posing as a boy to get an education,
-- twins separated at birth
sorting out the mystery of their otherworldly connection to one another,
-- a lifelong three-way love
story,
-- soul projection and transference linking individuals to
one another and connecting past to present,
-- and the story of a young reporter who falls in love with
the soul he finds in the body of an old and dying woman.
As a cross-dressing
sword-fighting teenager, Kate beats Mercutio, captain of the King's Musketeers,
in a duel in Paris.
As Will's double and writing
partner, Kate enables him to do the work of two geniuses.
This outlandish view of
Shakespeare's life and times stays true to the facts, while presenting
explanations that are intriguingly plausible.
Like Shakespeare in Love, this is a humorous, romantic take
on Shakespeare the man.
Like Yentl, a brilliant young woman finds creative ways to
succeed in a man-dominated world.
Amazon reviews --
Richard Seltzer’s
story, Shakespeare’s Twin Sister, is a clever insightful romp.
We first encounter Kate as Lettie, a 99-year-old woman in a nursing home, 1987.
Her personality transforms and she tells her “real” story to a young
journalist, Bill Greene.
He, in turn, retells a surprisingly plausible tale of Kate’s multiple
identities (male and female) as Shakespeare’s twin sister.
Apparently, Kate played a large role in the writing of the famous works.
Not only that, but she is an arch feminist in men’s clothing with longings of
her own.
The book is full of good humor – the Arden family quotes lines from
Shakespeare’s play in their daily banter.
The titles are fun too – “If You Incest!”
Read this novel – it’s a mind-bending hoot!"
Breeze
Breeze,
a young woman in present-day Connecticut, goes into a medically inexplicable
coma. Her boyfriend, Yannie, a senior at Yale, has to get her the help she
needs to survive while trying to solve the mystery of this goddess-like free
spirit who appeared out of nowhere two months before.
In part two, Breeze awakens in a different body in
a different place and time. She is at Troy in the body of Briseis, love-slave
of Achilles. She fears she’ll be taken for a demon. She knows the story she is
trapped in, and she learns that she can make changes in what the story leaves
unsaid, so long as she doesn't alter the direction of the narrative.
In part three, Breeze finds herself in still another body. It's the fourth
century AD and she’s at the temple of the Eleusinian Mysteries, near Athens. A
young woman lies down on the altar next to the corpse of another young woman.
In the ritual, she expects her soul will move to the body of the dead woman.
Instead, the dead woman comes to life with the soul of Breeze. That glitch
leads to humorous complications as well insights into the ironies of everyday
life and love.
Nevermind
A WWII
romance veers off into an alternate reality and then another and another.
"Richard Seltzer takes us on another
spellbinding journey into an alterante reality that defies our familiar
perception of space and time. Nevermind is a story with a backdrop that seems
grounded on the surface, but turns into a flight of mind-bending twists."
Interview
about Nevermind at Readers Magnet
Beyond
the 4th Door
Without knowing why or how, two
college students wake up 50 years older than they were when they went to sleep
and with no memory of what has happened in between.
The first door is birth. The second is death. Finally, Frank and Marge go
through the fourth door.
"Richard Seltzer's
vast imagination knows no bounds...
Think Thomas Wolfe. Think The Razor's Edge by Maugham.
...the main character...talented, energetic,
charismatic... genre-defying Be prepared for a wild ride."
"Richard Seltzer is a master of educating us to the
possibilities of existence once we set our mind free and open the door to the
unknown."
Parallel Lives
The story, which
begins in an assisted-living facity in New Hampshire, leads to 18th century
Boston and London, where there's unfinished business that residents, through
mirror selves, must take care of.
"Ingeniously
woven trip through space and time"
blog
interview
Works by and about historical figures who are characters in
Parallel Lives:
Mercy Otis Warren, historian and playwright
The Rise, Progress and
Termination of the American Revolution
The
original 3-volume work is 1317 pages long. Mercy wrote early drafts of this
work near the time of the events described, and completed the work about four
years before it appeared in 1805. Mercy wrote in the third person even when
dealing with events involving her immediate family. James Otis (early advocate
of the rights of the colonies) was her brother, James Warren (speaker of the
Massachusetts House of Representatives) was her husband, and Winslow Warren
(would-be diplomat) was her son.
- Introduction
- Volume 1, From the Origins to
Valley Forge in 1778
- Volume 2, From Saratoga in 1778 to
the Eve of Yorktown in 1781
- Volume 3, From Yorktown in 1781 to
the Treaty of Paris in 1783, Plus a Few Subsequent Events and Observations
About the Constitution (1787), the French Revolution (1789), and the
Presidencies of Washington and Adams (up to 1801)
Other works by
Mercy Otis Warren
Gentleman Johnny Burgoyne, general and playwright
- A Sketch of the
Life of Lieutenant-General Burgoyne
- Orderly Book
of Lieutenant General John Burgoyne from His Entry into the State of New
York Until His surrender at Saratoga, 16 Oct. 1777
- Eudora, a Tragedy, 1790
- The Viceroy, a Tragedy
- Heroine of
Cambria, a Tragedy
- The Maid of the
Oaks, a Comedy, 1774. Written in celebration of the forthcoming
marriage of Edward Smith Stanley, heir to the earldom of Derby and Lady
Elizabeth Hamilton
- The Heiress, a Comedy,
debuted at Drury Lane Theatre, Jan. 14, 1786. An enormous success.
- The
Camp, a Musical Entertainment, 1778, Coathor with Richard Sheridan.
The most performed work at the Drury Lane Theatre in the 1778-1779 season,
beating School for Scandal.
- The Lord of the
Manor, Comic Opera. First staged at Drury Lane Theatre Dec. 1780.
Written for his lover the actress Susan Caufield.
- Richard Coeur
de Lion, an Historical Romance, a Semi-Opera, first staged in 786.
Text by Burgoyne set to music by Thomas Linley the Elder. A translation of
Michel-Jean Sedaine's opera of the same name. A major success.
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RICHARD'S OTHER WORKS
Postings at medium.com -- stories, essays, poems, and jokes.
overview essays from Untrammeled thoughts
The Barracks (from
Saint Smith and Other Stories), novella, 11K words, published online at fictionontheweb.co.uk.
Was also published online at Untold Tales Publishing which is now defunct.
The Barracks takes
place during basic training at Fort Polk, LA, in the summer of 1970, during the
Viet Nam War. The overwhelming majority of the trainees are reservists. All
white, in a matter of weeks, they'll return home and go about their usual
lives, unless something unexpected goes wrong. Four black trainees in the same
platoon face immediate assignment to Viet Nam, so they have been deliberately
failing the course, being "recycled," over and over again. Tensions
of the war (which none of them support) and race relations (which the
reservists never faced before) come to a head over an incident that in and of
itself seems to have little significance but symbolically looms large.
based on that novella The Barracks, a three-act
stage play (1989) and Spit
and Polish, a full-length screen play (2001)
The Gentle
Inquisitor and Other Stories, Was published online at Untold Tales
Publishing, which is now defunct.
These eight ironic stories deal with serious questions in unique and playful
ways. They'll make you smile and wonder and prompt you to think about human
nature and the meaning of life from new perspectives.
The
AltaVista Search Revolution:How to Find Anything on the Internet,
Osborne/McGraw-Hill, 1997 and 1998, with Eric J. Ray and Deborah S. Ray
The first consumer book about search engines.
(AltaVista was the forerunner of Google.)
Winner of the "Distinguished Technical
Communication Award," the highest award given by the Society for Technical
Communication Publications.
2 editions, Hebrew and Japanese translations. Braille
version published by National Braille Press
"This complete guide to using the AltaVista web
searching/indexing system will be indispensable to both librarians and
patrons.... Get one copy to circulate, nail one down in the computer lab, and
pass one around the reference desk." -- Library Journal
Ethiopia Through
Russian Eyes by Alexander Bulatovich, translation by Richard Seltzer (Red
Sea/Africa World Press, 2000) at
Kobo at
Nook at
Apple
including 78 photos taken in Ethiopia in
1896-1898
"...the most important book
on the history of eastern Africa to have been published for a century...."
Old Africa (complete
review)
My Third Journey to
Ethiopia, 1899-1900 by Alexander Bulatovich, translation by Richard Seltzer
Assembled from previously
unpublished items in the Russian archives, this is a lively and detailed
account of Bulatovich's travels, at the behest of Ethiopian Emperor Meneik II,
in the northwestern border regions of the country, at a time when war with England
seemed imminent. Bulatovich provides an insightful assessment of England's
likely moves and what Menelik could do to block them, even including an
invasion of the Sudan. Once again he provides previously unknown details about
a critical time in Ethiopia's history. There's also a brief account of
Bulatovich's fourth journey to Ethiopia in 1911, at which time he was a Russian
Orthodox monk and sought to found a monastery at a lake to the south of Addis
Ababa. This is a companion to Ethiopia Through Russian Eyes.
The
Lizard of Oz, fantasy, 1974, revised and
expanded 2018 at
Kobo at
Nook query message
for second edition at
Apple at
Nook at
Kobo query message
"An intriguing and very entertaining little
novel" Library Journal
"Carroll and Tolkien have a new companion" Aspect
"A work so saturated that the mind is both stoned
with pleasure and alive with wonder" Lancaster Independent Press
"A commentary on our times done
delightfully" Philadelphia Bulletin
"A gallery of figments of contemporary culture
that could take its place on the library shelf of memory along with classic
figures of children's fiction" Valley Advocate
"Adventures in Small
Press Publishing" the story of how I self-published this book in 1974
Now and Then and Other
Tales from Ome, children's stories, 1976 at
Kobo at
Nook at
Apple
"A highly original collection of short stories,
sometimes humorous, sometimes profound." Boston Globe
The
Name of Hero, historical novel, Tarcher/Houghton Mifflin, 1981
at Kobo
at
Nook at
Apple
translation
of this novel into Russian
sources and
related documents
Saint Smith and Other
Stories, 2011
at
Kobo at
Nook at
Apple
MGMT MEMO: Management
Lessons from DEC, 2018 at
Apple at
Nook at Google
Play
Snapshots of DEC, 2018
at
Apple at
Nook
Web Business Boot Camp
Hands-on Internet lessons for manager, entrepreneurs, and professionals, Wiley,
2002
at Apple at
Nook at
Kobo
Take Charge of Your Web Site,
MightyWords, 2001
Shop Online the
Lazy Way (Macmillan, 1999. Braille edition published by National Braille Press) at
Nook at Google
Play at
Apple
The Social Web: How to
build successful personal or business Web sites, 1998) at
Apple
The Way of the
Web Lessons from the Internet. How to adapt to the new business
environment, 1995)
at Kobo
at
Apple
Dryden's Exemplary
Drama, senior thesis at Yale (1969) at
Apple at Google
Play at
Nook
Death of the Federalist Party, paper written in high school, in 1963. at Apple at Google Play
Dark Woods and Other
Poems
at
Apple
at
Nook
- Laugh and Let Laugh, word play, over 3200 short jokes (looking for a publisher)
- Trumpisms (Trump jokes at Glossy News Satire, 2019) one of the top 10 most popular articles of the year (#6)
- Trumpisms 2.0 (Trump jokes at Glossy News Satire. 2019)
- Trumpisms 3.0 (Trump jokes at Glossy News Satire, 2019)
- Trumpisms 4.0 (Trump jokes at Glossy News Satire, 2020)
- Trumpisms 5.0 (Trump jokes at Glossy News Satire, 2020)
- Trumpisms
6.0 (Trump jokes at Glossy News Satire, 2020)
- Trumpisms
7.0 (Trump jokes at Glossy News Satire, 2020)
- Tumpisms 8.0 (Trump jokes at Glossy News Satire, 2020)
- Trumpisms 9.0 (Trump jokes at Glossy News Satire, 2020)
- Trumpisms 10.0 (Trump jokes at
Glossy News Satire, 2020)
-
Trumpisms 11.0 (Trump jokes at Glossy News Satire, 2020)
-
Trumpisms 12.0 (Trump jokes at Glossy News Satire, 2020)
- The Gentle Inquisitor (from Saint Smith and Other Stories)
- The Choice (from Saint Smith and Other Stories)
- Creation Story (from Saint Smith and Other Stories)
- Chiang ti Tales (from Saint Smith and Other Stories)
- The Mirror (from Saint Smith and Other Stories) (American Bystander #13, 2019
- Now and Then (from Now and Then
and Other Tales from Ome)
- Revolution (at Glossy News Satire, 2019)
- Finnegan Died (at
Glossy News Satire, 2019)
- Size Matters (at
Glossy News Satire, 2019)
- Hundreds and Hundreds of
Gerbils to be published in May 2021 online at fictionontheweb.co.uk
- Julie's Book: The Little Princess (from Now and Then and Other Tales from
Ome)
- Mary Jane's Book: The Book of Animals (from Now and Then and Other Tales from
Ome)
- The Little Oops Named Ker
Plop (from Now and Then and Other Tales from Ome)
- Hands
- Tiger in the Intercom
- Yanni, to be published
April 2021 online at fictionontheweb.co.uk
PLAYS
Without a Myth and Five Other Plays at
Apple at Google
Play at
Nook
- Without a Myth, three-act
play (1971)
- Heel, Hitler, ten-minute
play (2015)
- The Barracks, a
three-act stage play (1989)
- Rights Crossing, a two-act
historical play, set in the American Revolution (1976)
- Mercy, a two-act historical
comedy, set in the American Revolution, based on the lives of Mercy Otis
Warren and General Johnny Burgoyne. (1975)
- Heel, Hitler, ten-minute play (2015)
- The Lizard of Oz, children's
play (1976)
SCRIPTS
- The Lizard of Oz radio script, episode1, episode 2, episode 3
- Spit and Polish, a
full-length screen play (2001)
- Traffic Jam, a short
screen play (1972)
- Family on Demand, first episode of proposed sitcom, co-written with
Ethel Kaiden (2004)
- A Glimpse of the Future,
1993 video about the future of the Internet, written by Richard Seltzer
SPEECHES
-
From Russia and Ethiopia to the Internet (Wesleyan College) article
- Surviving as a Small Business in the Age of Google: Generate Search-engine
Traffic (NEXPO, Washington, DC) article
- The Future of Business on the Internet (Lewiston, Maine) script
- Increase Traffic on the Internet Without Advertising (IQPC Conference, San
Francisco, CA) article
- Corporate-wide Knowledge Management (ExpoManagement 98, Buenos
Aires, Argentina) article
- Business Opportunities on the Internet (Comdex, Buenos Aires,
Argentina) script
- The Social Web: from Hyper-links to People-links (Web Week 97,
Oak Ridge National Labs, Oak Ridge, TN) book
- Basics of Effective Web Sites: How to Succeed When the Rules of the Game
Change (Boston) book
- Building Communities on the Internet (Internet Expo/Email World, Boston, New
Orleans) article
COLLECTIONS OF ARTICLES
- Complete
text of newsletter Internet-on-a-Disk 1994-2011
- Current thoughts on
all topics
- Distance
Education
- Internet
Present & Past
- Internet History
-
Internet Strategy and Marketing
- EBay and Other Online Auctions
- Internet Search
- Community and Collaboration
- Web Site Design
- Working At Home
- Publishing and
Ebooks
- Glimpses (essays
toward a personal philosophy)
- My book reviews
INDIVIDUAL ARTICLES
- 70 Online
Dates - Learning to Date at 68
- Asthma in Timisoara: A
Glimpse at the Romanian Medical System
- Romantic Romania?
- Training, Not Censorship: The
Need for Cyber-Street-Smarts
- Global Competition and the
Long Road to General Prosperity (1992)
- Thoughts
on Reading and Writing
- The Bugle Boy
- Why Bother to Save
Halloween?
- The Nostalgia of
Tomorrowland
- Adventures in Small Press
Publishing: the Lizard of Oz
- From Russia to Ethiopia to
the Internet
- The Serge Solovieff
Mystery - A World War I Variant of the Spanish Prisoner and Nigerian Scams
- Making sense of the myths
behind Greek tragedy, in particular the mythos of Pelops/Atreus/Agamemnon,
grad school paper (1970)
- Filial
Respect in Confucius and Socrates and the Divergence of Western and Chinese
Philosophic Traditions, paper written while an undergraduate at Yale, May
1967
- Another Look at Moliere's l'Avare
(The Miser), paper written while a student at Brentwood School in
Brentwood, Essex, England, May, 1965.
TRAVEL
JUVENALIA
- The Story of the Trojan War in Unintentionally Humorous Verse doggerel written in the sixth grade (age 11)
- Hi-Q or Peg Solitarie, a solution to the game solved and recorded in the third grade (age 8)
- Stories Written in the Second Grade
BOOKS IN SEARCH OF AGENT/PUBLISHER
- The Bard of Eastport, novel
- We Met in Ithaca, novel
- Untrammeled Thoughts. There Is No Box, essays
- Laugh and Let Laugh, jokes
OTHER WRITING PROJECTS
-
The Name Trilogy, including The Name of Hero, The Name of Man, and The Name of
God (opening chapters of Name of
Man)
PUBLISHING
Seltzer Books (titles
organized as Virtual Book Tables)
Catalog (with links
to ebook stores)
READING
Sixty-Twp Years of Reading (complete list of books I've read since 1958)
My Current Reading list (2020)
Recommended contemporary books (published since WW II)
My book reviews
Book reviews by Dean
Rink
The Cary-Estes Genealogy by May Folk Webb and Patrick Mann Estes
The Cary-Estes-Moore Genealogy by Helen Estes Seltzer
All-inclusive genealogy page (listing over 1600 direct ancestors)
Ray Brehm's Seltzer and Hocker
Genealogy
Daly Family Album
Daly Genealogy
Ancestor Surfing (advice on
genealogical research)
OTHER INTERESTS
Bob Seltzer's chess career
Nancy Felson,
Greek Scholar, selected articles and CV
Dictionary, a Vocabulary of
the Attic Language by S. C. Woodhouse (1910), a hyperlinked version
DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation), the world's second
largest computer company before its demise in 1998, where I worked 1979 to 1998.
Grace Sherwood, Virginia Witch
Mercy Otis Warren
Ethiopia
World War II
Robert Greene
General Johnny Burogoyne
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