mudd up! (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
Samuel Delany and Junot Diaz reading in NYC this monday! Monday, November 24th SPECIAL NIGHT! With Junot Diaz (The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao) and Samuel R. Delany (Dhalgren, Dark Reflections). @ Solas Bar, 232 E. 9th Street 7:30PM sharp
Hebdomeros (Free subscription) | 11/15/2008
The past couple of weeks I've been reading Samuel R. Delany's book About Writing , a book that collects a number of essays and letters that Delany wrote over the past 30 years on the subject of writing fiction. Although he first broaches it in his introduction, a concept Delany returns to again and again throughout the book is what he sees as the differences between good writing and talented writing....
Planet-x.com.au (Free subscription) | 11/14/2008
"…we store information differently, reading a science fiction story, to make it make sense." - Samuel R. Delany. Home | Glossary | Timeline | New
Cobb (Free subscription) | 10/05/2008
You get what you pay for. -- Ancient Cliche One of the best things I ever learned as a conscious progressive in the early 90s was the name of Samuel R. Delany. Delany's Neveryon series made me think about learning...
Phillyist (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
Film: The Polymath, or the Life and Opinions of Samuel R. Delany, Gentleman Future Screening: None I'll come right out and admit it: I've done a bad job of attending the Philadelphia International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival this year. But, I have done better this year than any previous year, because this year I've actually made it out to a film, and I have definite plans to see at least one or...
io9 (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
I'm supposed to talk to Samuel R. Delany, award-winning author of Dhalgren, later today or possibly over the weekend. Are there any burning questions you've always wished someone would ask him? (That... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
Film Reviews: Primarily known (where known at all) as a prolific sci-fi author, Samuel R. Delany gets props as a writer in myriad genres, a unique intellect and pretty interesting personality in "The Polymath."
Book Covers blog (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Apparently these books have been sitting on the shelves for a few years and I somehow overlooked them… they are positively fetishistic; I find myself wanting to lick them. Samuel R. Delany is one of those science fiction writers that Serious Literature has no choice but to recognize and then rationalize out of the genre. It’s pleasing to see such an accomplished writer get first-class treatment; it’s...
Interconnected (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
Books read June 2008, with date finished: When the Body Becomes All Eyes, Phillip B. Zarrilli (4th) From Counterculture to Cyberculture , Fred Turner (20th) Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand , Samuel R. Delany (22nd) A New Philosophy of Society , Manual DeLanda (26th) The Periodic Table , Primo Levi (29th) I'm a huge fan of DeLanda. I find his language and the concepts useful operators in thinking...
Neil Gaiman's Journal (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
Maddy and Holly and I had dinner last night with The Graveyard Book producer. Maddy and I were both a bit jet-lagged -- still are. Holly now has honey-coloured hair which would render her immune to jet lag. I'm reading Samuel R. Delany's About Writing right now, because I have a very short list of books I really learned about writing from when I was a young thing who wanted to be a writer, and Delany's...
Tales from the Bitface (Free subscription) | 06/02/2008
Or, ‘A Fabulous, Formless Darkness’, which was Delany’s original preferred title, according to Neil Gaiman (him again ?) in his introduction to this edition. Delany writes twisty puzzle-stories, where it’s not always clear what’s going on, or why. I’m a big fan of his later masterpiece, Dhalgren , which matches that description, for example. This one is more straightforward by comparison. It is Earth’s...
A Labourer at the Bitface (Free subscription) | 06/02/2008
Or, ‘A Fabulous, Formless Darkness’, which was Delany’s original preferred title, according to Neil Gaiman (him again') in his introduction to this edition. Delany writes twisty puzzle-stories, where it’s not always clear what’s going on, or why. I’m a big fan of his later masterpiece, Dhalgren, which matches that description, for example. This one is more straightforward [...]
Front Free Endpaper (Free subscription) | 04/30/2008
I have been reading the article by SRD which I bought the SF Review fanzine for, blogged below . SRD absolutely shines when he is writing about writing and this article is about the process of writing and about the place and purpose of criticism. In the course of it I came across this wonderful quote: "The General Public is a statistical fiction created by a few exceptional men to make the loneliness...
Campaign for the American Reader (Free subscription) | 04/21/2008
Junot Díaz, the Dominican-born author who won a Pulitzer this month for The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, told Newsweek about his five most important books. And answered two related questions: A Book You Always Return To: Samuel R. Delany's "Dhalgren," which best captures that late '60s eruption that has shaped so much of what we call the Now. A Book You Hope Parents Will Read To Their
Grasping Reality with Both Hands (Free subscription) | 04/12/2008
Gary Farber sends us to Samuel Delany, who reads: > Samuel R. Delany: About Five Thousand Seven Hundred and Fifty Words: Now let's atomize the correction process itself. A story begins: > The What is the image thrown on your mind? Whatever it is, it is going to be changed many, many times before the tale is over. My own, unmodified, rather whimsical The is a grey'?ish ellipsoid about four feet high...
