CONVERSATIONS WITH SAMUEL R. DELANY
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1. Samuel Delany's parting with science fiction
2. Creativity and the failure to create
3. Delany's "observation and organization"
7. Delany's "Letter to a Critic"
8. Delany on the reader's mind
10. Paraliterature
11. Lunatic readers
12. "The Motion of Light in Water"
13. Poetry as a source of renewal
14. Gerald Burns: How words come to a writer
15. Delany on Silliman's "The Alphabet"
17. Stein and "the way language comes to geniuses"
18. Blanche McCrary Boyd's writing advice
21. The "aesthetic register" and the pleasure in pattern
22. High art and provincial culture
23. Inadequate language for art and its reception
24. The "non-family anchored hero"
25. Genre as reading
30. Delany's interesting theorists
31. The real and the political
32. Fiction, Marxism, and anxiety
33. Science fiction and children's literature
34. Delany's preferred science fiction writers
35. Borges' "This Craft of Verse"
36. Giorgio Agamben's "The Coming Community"
37. The origins of the synchronic and the diachronic
38. Synchronic and diachronic intellectual work
41. Philip K. Dick's non-SF novels
42. Against cultivating values
43. The intensity of a sentence
45. Flaubert's "Sentimental Education"
48. Deleuze on S/M
49. Sexualized power differentials
51. Walter Pater's aesthetic project
52. Delany's list of "serious criticism of comics"
53. Publishing and anti-Semitism
54. Spivak's "text"
56. Language, subject position, and meaning
57. Yvor Winter, American poetry, and the imagination
58. Delany on working with the imagination
59. Delany's "Dark Reflections"
60. Delany on structure, content, and form
61. Christopher Isherwood's "A Single Man"
63. Delany on Michael Cunningham
65. Plato and change
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