Delany reading from Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders @ Vassar
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.
Delany @ The Franklin Institute
Samuel R. Delany and Avery Brooks will discuss race, scince fiction and Star Trek at the Franklin Insitute in Philadelphia on Friday, July 31, 2009.
via www.paswa.org
Reading at KGB
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.
To sci-fi and beyond
An interesting article in The Philadelphia Inquirer profiling Delany.
New book: Conversations with Samuel R. Delany
The University Press of Mississippi will publish Conversations with Samuel R. Delany in September 2009. Here is the Amazon listing for the hardcover edition.
Update on the Black Clock celebration
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.
