Bibliograph

Of solids and surds, notes for Noël Sturgeon, Marilyn Hacker, Josh Lukin, Mia Wolff Bill Stribling, and Bob White, Samuel R. Delany

Type

Label

Of solids and surds, notes for Noël Sturgeon, Marilyn Hacker, Josh Lukin, Mia Wolff Bill Stribling, and Bob White, Samuel R. Delany

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Of solids and surds

Responsibility statement

Samuel R. Delany

Series statement

Why I write

Sub title

notes for Noël Sturgeon, Marilyn Hacker, Josh Lukin, Mia Wolff Bill Stribling, and Bob White

Summary

Language is the way humans deal with past, present, and future possibilities, as well as the subset called the probable. This is where Samuel Delany finds his justification for the writing life. Since the 1960s, occurrences such as Sputnik, school desegregation, and the advent of AIDS have given Delany, as a gay man, as a black man, access to certain truths and facts he could write about, and the language?sometimes fiction, sometimes nonfiction?in which to present them. "We write," Delany believes, "at the intersection of your experience and mine in a way, I hope, that allows recognition."

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