Down from Troy

You might have to love Troy to love reading this memoir. Selzer's prose is unabashedly floral. Somehow he toed the line (closely at times!) and stayed in my good graces, despite being self-consciously sentimental and fastidious. The tale of a mama's boy following in his father's footsteps as the goo......more

This book was recommended to me because I had recently discovered that Troy was where my paternal family lived for three generations. Since the author covered that time period and I was about to visit Troy, I found the book interesting and informing. I appreciate the author’s wit and literary style.......more

As someone who will soon be attending Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, I bought this book in hopes of getting a sneak peek of the city I will soon call home. Selzer, though he lived there almost a century before I, described Troy in all its glory and splendor to a child. I only wi......more

When I read the first of Selzer's books I encountered, 'Confessions of a Knife', I noted in my review that I wouldn't read another by him unless recommended by a friend. Time perhaps makes that memory fade, as this book sounded intriguing when I found it at the book exchange at work. One of my beefs......more