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02989aam a2200361Ii 4500 001 693FE598875711E9A56C064497128E48 003 SILO 005 20190605010028 008 181217t20192019ctu 000 ideng d 020 $a 0819578517 020 $a 9780819578518 020 $a 0819578207 020 $a 9780819578204 035 $a (OCoLC)1078993085 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d ORX $d CPL $d OCLCF $d PAU $d OCLCO $d IWA $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 050 4 $a PS3554 E437 Z48 2019x 100 1 $a Delany, Samuel R., $e author. 240 10 $a Correspondence. $k Selections 245 10 $a Letters from Amherst : $b five narrative letters / $c Samuel R. Delany. 264 1 $a Middletown, Connecticut : $b Wesleyan University Press, $c [2019] 300 $a xvi, 173 pages ; $c 24 cm 505 00 $t Acknowledgments. $t Foreword / $r by Nalo Hopkinson -- $g 5. $t To Robert Bravard, February 21, 1989 -- $g 2. $t To Robert Bravard, May 22, 1990 -- $g 3. $t To Robert Bravard, January 28, 1991 -- $g 4. $t To Kate Spencer, March 16, 1991 -- $g 5. $t To Erin McGraw, September 24, 1991 -- $t Appendix: Letters to Iva -- $t Acknowledgments. 520 $a Five substantial letters written from 1989 to 1991 bring readers into conversation with Hugo and Nebula Award winning-author Samuel Delany. With engaging prose, Delany shares details about his work, his relationships, and the thoughts he had while living in Amherst and teaching as a professor at the UMASS campus just outside of town, in contrast to the more chaotic life of New York City. Along with commentary on his own work and the work of other writers, he ponders the state of America, discusses friends who are facing AIDS and other ailments, and comments on the politics of working in academia. Two of the letters, which tell the story of his meeting his life partner Dennis, became the basis of his 1995 graphic novel, Bread & Wine. Another letter describes the funeral of his uncle Hubert T. Delany, former judge and well-known civil rights activist, and leads to reflections on his family's life in 1950s Harlem. Another details a visit from science fiction writer and critic Judith Merrill, and in another he gives a portrait of his one-time student Octavia E. Butler, who by then has become his colleague. In addition, an appendix shares ten letters Delany sent to his daughter while she attended summer camp between 1984 and 1988. These letters describe Delany's daily life, including visitors to his upper-west-side apartment, his travels for work and pleasure, lectures attended, movies viewed, and exhibits seen. 600 10 $a Delany, Samuel R. $v Correspondence. 600 10 $a Bravard, Robert S. $v Correspondence. 600 10 $a Spencer, Kathleen, $d 1947- $v Correspondence. 600 10 $a McGraw, Erin, $d 1957- $v Correspondence. 650 0 $a Authors, American $y 20th century $v Correspondence. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20190605020036.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=693FE598875711E9A56C064497128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search