New York City’s The New School has announced a special reading and discussion with Samuel R. Delany on Wednesday 16 September at 6:30PM. The event will feature Delany in conversation with Greil Marcus.
Delany is the author of novels including Nova, Dhlagren, Dark Reflections, and Atlantis: Three Tales. His nonfiction includes Silent Interviews: On Language, Race, Sex, Science Fiction and Some Comics, and Times Square Red, Times Square Blue, about the meaning of the late 1990s Times Square makeover for New York gay men. He is a Science Fiction Hall of Fame Living Inductee, a winner of the Gaylactic Spectrum and Lambda lifetime awards, as well as the Science Fiction Research Association’s Pilgrim Award. His novel Babel-17 won the Nebula Award in 1967. The following year, he won two, for his short story “Aye, and Gomorrah”, and for his novel The Einstein Intersection. In 1970, he won both a Hugo and a Nebula for his novelette “Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones”. And in 1989, he won a the Hugo Award for Best Nonfiction Book for his The Motion of Light in Water: Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village, 1957-1965. Delany is the Director of the Graduate Creative Writing Program at Temple University.
Marcus is a visiting professor in the Riggio Writing and Democracy Program.
The event will be in The New School’s Wollman Hall, at 66 West 12th Street, 5th Floor. Admission is $5 (free to all students with ID). Advance tickets are available from the New School Box Office at 212-229-5488 or via e-mail from boxoffice at newschool dot edu.