About Writing. Samuel R. Delany
ABOUT WRiTiNG
Seven Essays, Four Letters, and Five Interviews
Also by Samuel R. Delany
FICTION
The Jewels of Aptor (1962)
The Fall of the Towers
Out of the Dead City (1963)
The Towers of Toron (1964)
City of a Thousand Suns (1965)
The Ballad of Beta-2 (1965)
Babel-17 (1966)
Empire Star (1966)
The Einstein Intersection (1967)
Nova (1968)
Driftglass (1969)
Equinox (1973)
Dhalgren (1975)
Trouble on Triton (1976)
Return to Nevèrÿon
Tales of Nevèrÿon (1979)
Neveryóna (1982)
Flight from Nevèrÿon (1985)
Return to Nevèrÿon (1987)
Distant Stars (1981)
Stars in My Pockets Like Grains of Sand (1984)
Driftglass/Starshards (collected stories, 1993)
They Fly at Çiron (1993)
The Mad Man (1994)
Hogg (1995)
Atlantis: Three Tales (1995)
Aye, and Gomorrah (and other stories, 2004)
Phallos (2004)
GRAPHIC NOVELS
Empire (artist, Howard Chaynkin, 1980)
Bread & Wine (artist, Mia Wolff, 1999)
NONFICTION
The Jewel-Hinged Jaw (1977)
The American Shore (1978)
Heavenly Breakfast (1979)
Starboard Wine (1984)
The Motion of Light in Water (1988)
Wagner/Artaud (1988)
The Straits of Messina (1990)
Silent Interviews (1994)
Longer Views (1996)
Times Square Red, Times Square Blue (1999)
Shorter Views (1999)
1984: Selected Letters (2000)
ABOUT WRiTiNG
Seven Essays, Four Letters, and Five Interviews
Samuel R. Delany
Wesleyan University Press
Middletown, Connecticut
Published by Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, CT 06459 www.wesleyan.edu/wespress
© 2005 by Samuel R. Delany
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Printed in the United States of America 5 4 3
ISBN-13: 978-0-8195-6716-1 • ISBN-10: 0-8195-6716-7
“Teaching/Writing” first appeared as “Teaching S-f Writing” in Clarion (New York: Signet Books; New American Library, 1971).
“Thickening the Plot” first appeared in Those Who Can, ed. Robin Scott Wilson (New York: Mentor Books; New American Library, 1973).
“Characters” and “On Pure Storytelling” first appeared in The Jewel-Hinged Jaw (New York: Berkeley Windhover Books, 1977), 155–60, 161–70.
“Of Doubts and Dreams” first appeared in Distant Stars (New York: Bantam Books, 1981), 7–16.
“After Almost No Time at All the String on Which He had Been Pulling and Pulling Came Apart into Two Separate Pieces So Quickly He Hardly Realized It Had Snapped, or: Reflections on ‘The Beach Fire’” first appeared in Empire SF 5.20 (summer 1980).
“Some Notes for the Intermediate and Advanced Creative Writing Student” first appeared in Shorter Views (Hanover, N.H.: Wesleyan University Press, 2000), 433–57.
“A Para•doxa Interview: Experimental Writing/Texts & Questions” first appeared as “Para•doxa Interview: Texts & Questions, with Samuel R. Delany” in “The Future of Narrative,” ed. Lance Olsen, a special issue of Para•doxa 4.11 (1998): 384–430.
“An American Literary History Interview: The Situation of American Writing Today” first appeared in somewhat different form, as part of a symposium entitled “The Situation of American Writing Today” in American Literary History 11.2 (1999): 331–53.
“A Poetry Project Newsletter Interview: A Silent Interview” first appeared in The Poetry Project Newsletter, New York, March 18, 1999.
“A Black Clock Interview” first appeared in Black Clock, no. 1 (March 2004): 64–75.
“A Para•doxa Interview: Inside and Outside the Canon” first appeared as “Para•doxa Interview with Samuel R. Delany,” in Para•doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres [Vashan Island, Washington] 1.3 (1995), ed. Lauric Guillard.
CIP data is available from the Library of Congress.
This is for Marie Ponsot, in return for the Djuna Barnes.
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