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01864aam a2200337 i 4500 001 341F0C1215EA11ECA2E417E45AECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210915010017 008 210312s2021 ctu 000 0aeng d 020 $a 9780300250404 020 $a 0300250401 035 $a (OCoLC)1241245642 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d ERASA $d YUS $d OCLCO $d CDX $d OCLCO $d IOU $d SILO 082 04 $a 813/.54 $2 23 100 1 $a Delany, Samuel R., $e author. 245 10 $a Of solids and surds : $b notes for NoeÌl Sturgeon, Marilyn Hacker, Josh Lukin, Mia Wolff Bill Stribling, and Bob White / $c Samuel R. Delany. 246 30 $a Notes for NoeÌl Sturgeon, Marilyn Hacker, Josh Lukin, Mia Wolff Bill Stribling, and Bob White 264 1 $a New Haven : $b Yale University Press, $c 2021. 300 $a 157 pages ; $c 19 cm. 490 1 $a Why I write 520 8 $a 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." 500 $a "The 2020 Windham-Campbell Lecture." 650 0 $a Authors, American $v Biography. 600 10 $a Delany, Samuel R. 650 0 $a Authorship. 650 0 $a Speculative fiction $x History and criticism. 830 0 $a Why I write series. 941 $a 1 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20210915010114.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=341F0C1215EA11ECA2E417E45AECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search