Did anyone make it up to Buffalo for the critical symposium on SRD and his work? If so I'd love to hear about it. Which papers were the most interesting?...
I attended (and presented at) the conference, and it was a wonderful and warm intellectual experience. Delany was present throughout the two days and...
Lavelle, thank you so much. The original web site for the symposium is at: http://www.english.buffalo.edu/delany/ I live in Toronto -- about 1.5 hours away --...
Zvi, I was wondering what happened to that message. Glad to see it made it through. There is in fact some discussion about gathering the papers into a volume....
Remember the party at Calkins' in "Dhalgren" where Lanya wears a dress of material that Tak introduced to Kid in that warehouse? Well, looks like someone has...
I just finished rereading _Dhalgren_ a few days ago, approximately 7 years after my last rereading.. Whenever I reread it, it is like coming back to a city I...
As far as I know, Erich, that's a new reading, a valid reading, and an evocative reading of some of the most read words in Delany's work. Congratulations!...
... Two out of three: the double "to" is discussed in ... hell, I _think_ it's the introduction to the Gregg edition, not sure. At any rate, yes, it's very...
... Certainly not wasted or "incorrect" in my mind. And the image of a spiral instead of a circle works well with the view of "living inside a text" as it is...
... awoken...". ... That's a very interesting interpretation, Eric. I always read those two lines as a "glitch" in the construct of Dhalgren. As if the book is...
For what it's worth (and I may have missed a post already mentioning this), I believe there's a spot in the text where the line comes up again, and it does ...
It's on page 806 in my copy (the old Bantam edition). Also (and this is a bit off the topic), there's this sentence several lines later on the same page:...
... Yes, that's my preferred interpretation as well. You think we're saying opposites, but, to supplement: "as is perfectly normal in a [realistic] novel";...
hi delany folks, some friends & i have set up a wiki for feminist SF -- i would really encourage listmembers here to please contribute. there's a wealth of ...
... I thought it was well known that Dhalgren was Delany's tribute to Finnegans Wake. Anyway, if I remember rightly, the repetition of the enclosing sentence ...
Paul, while I like some of your insights here some of your info has a kind of urbanlegendy quality to it... ... Seems unlikely; if there is a single text that...
... I often wonder, given the shifting gender modelling that Delany often plays with, is that the woman Kidd meets entering the city is "himself" leaving the...
... I agree that "tribute" is the wrong word here -- in many of his stories and novels, Delany references / alludes to / parodies / borrows tropes from...
... . . . snip . . . ... i suppose we might eventually end up with "The Bellona Quartet", which could be a worthwhile read. by the way, although no one took me...
... Ray> Yes, that's my preferred interpretation as well. I want to chime in and say that this is also how I've always interpreted the book. OK, not always: I...
... Exactly so. Well put! _Dhalgren_ is not a "fourth-wall" comedy, but an exploration... ... ...which ties back to the quotation at the book's beginning: "You...
"Writers and friends of Octavia E. Butler, who died in February, 2006, will gather to pay tribute to this internationally known science fiction writer whose...
http://www.villagevoice.com/nyclife/0620,langmuir,73224,15.html "But somehow, the Polk had managed to stay open way after Times Square had been transformed...
It was published in 1981 in the collection Distant Stars. The collection also included Empire Star; We, In Some Strange Power's Employ, Move on a Rigorous...
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