Notes from Conversations with Samuel R. Delany
Notes (oldest to newest)
1. Samuel Delany's parting with science fiction
2. Creativity and the failure to create
3. Delany's "observation and organization"
4. Delany on character
5. "Rhapsodic works"
6. "Centuries of Childhood"
7. Delany's "Letter to a Critic"
8. Delany on the reader's mind
9. Science fiction sentences
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"
16. Delany on Hart Crane
17. Stein and "the way language comes to geniuses"
18. Blanche McCrary Boyd's writing advice
19. Inadequate language
20. Early Frank Herbert
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
26. Stability and complexity
27. "Heidegger's question"
28. The early Baudrillard
29. "Seduced and Abandoned"
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
39. The super-ego run amok
40. Obliterated discourses
41. Philip K. Dick's non-SF novels
42. Against cultivating values
43. The intensity of a sentence
44. Delany's favorite books
45. Flaubert's "Sentimental Education"
46. Working class marriage
47. Delany on masturbation
48. Deleuze on S/M
49. Sexualized power differentials
50. Dance and the viewer
51. Walter Pater's aesthetic project
52. Delany's list of "serious criticism of comics"
53. Publishing and anti-Semitism
54. Spivak's "text"
55. Samuel Delany's "Shadows"
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"
62. Androgynous Achilles
63. Delany on Michael Cunningham
64. Delany on Willa Cather
65. Plato and change
66. Clouds of connotations
67. The universe's beauty

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