Showing posts with label character and landscape.. Show all posts
Showing posts with label character and landscape.. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 2, 2025
Friday, October 4, 2024
"What is the actual origin of a book?" "A character in a particular landscape."
Link to an exhaustive three-hour interview with Samuel R. Delany from 1983, covering:
sex, power & slavery in Nevèrÿon; perceptual metaphors, the symbols of "sanity" & involution as structural motif in Dhalgren; and Delany's three-stage writing process / writing as endless revision / editing purely to carve out space. "Everything starts with character & landscape..."
Additional: 2018 interview with Delany discussing his novella 'The Aetheist In The Attic'.
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