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Letters from Amherst - Five Narrative Letters (Paperback)
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Letters from Amherst - Five Narrative Letters (Paperback)
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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 Merril, 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.
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