Troy, New York native Bill Patrick was interviewed in the Albany Times Union about his book, Saving Troy: A Year with Firefighters and Paramedics in a Battered City. Patrick worked with firefighters in the city for over a year while he gathered their stories for his book. He explains how this opportunity afforded him a different view of the city he'd grown up in:
"For one thing, you go everyplace. And you see every kind of person—every class, every walk of life—and you go inside their houses. Which is even weirder. I mean you can wander around the streets and see most of these people, but at 2 in the morning to be in their living room stitching them up or delivering a baby or trying to stop the bleeding coming out of somebody, that's a whole different situation."
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The Albany Times Union recently ran an interview with Troy, NY native and SUNY Press author Richard Selzer.
In his letters, Selzer refers to his native city as "my beloved Troy," and still considers himself a Trojan even though he has lived in New Haven, Conn., for 50 years. A retired surgeon and professor of surgery at Yale, the author published his first book of essays about medicine in 1973. Locally, he may be best-known for his 1992 memoir, "Down From Troy", in which he draws the city in luscious glory.
Selzer's two new books include the novel Knife Song Korea, which details a tumultuous year in the life of a young surgeon during the Korean War, and Letters to a Best Friend, a collection of correspondence between he and writer, actor, painter, and filmmaker Peter Josyph.
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