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Thursday, October 29:

One more goody at Vassar: Samuel R. Delany, award-winning novelist, critic, and professor of creative writing at Temple University, will give a public reading and lecture about his forthcoming novel, Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders. The program, free and open to the public, will begin at 7:00pm in the Villard Room on the second floor of the College Center in Vassar’s historic Main Building. There will be a question-and-answer session after the reading.

More info.

A Clarion West Special Event

With Samuel R. Delany, Jack Womack, Cat Rambo, Kris Dikeman and guest-hosted by Rajan Khanna, July 15, 2009

More info: here.

According to the author info, Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders will be published next year by Alyson Books.

Junot Diaz with Samuel R. Delany.

via radiant fracture

Samuel R. Delany, who has won more science-fiction awards than I can count, read the opening of a story that seemed to skip science fiction altogether. It was either a sweet story or a noir setup — were these just two alienated people who might help each other, or would neediness turn ugly?

You can read the entire article here.

Taken from here:

Black Clock: Year Five A reading and reception with contributors to the L.A.-based literary magazine, featuring Aimee Bender, Samuel R. Delany, Greil Marcus, Joanna Scott and editor Steve Erickson. REDCAT at Walt Disney Concert Hall, 631 W. 2nd St., L.A. 7 p.m. Free. (213) 237-2800.

Listen here.  The podcast of another reading with Diaz. This one from January 21.

Coilhouse Magazine has an article on Trouble on Triton on their site. Check it out here. 

Comic Book Resources has an LGBT Comics Month and Delany’s Bread & Wine is featured in an article. Here. 

And, finally, the Delany reading at the Walker should now be available for streaming.

The PennSound site has uploaded two files – one of Samuel Delany’s reading at the Bowery Poetry Club with Paolo Javier, and another of Delany in a discussion of Hart Crane. These are downloadable mp3 files. The Delany page at PennSound is here.

You can now listen to Samuel Delany’s reading at the Walker Art Center on November 15 here. There is a very good account of the reading at the Astronave blog. You can read it here.

Samuel R. Delany and Junot Diaz will give a reading on Monday, November 24 as part of The St. Mark’s Bookshop Reading Series at Solas.

More info.