ALBANY Albany-based author Andrew Elitzer’s new book ‘Simply Put’ offers readers a transportive look at the world and their place within it. A compilation of short stories, observations, ruminations on nature, and vignettes, ‘Simply Put’ poses questions, and the journey to answering them is equally important as the answer itself. “My purpose in writing Albany-based author Andrew Elitzer’s new book ‘Simply Put’ offers readers a transportive look at the world and their place within it.