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Samuel R. Delany, sci-fi legend, may have had a mini-stroke, but he doesn’t want to discuss his own significance.
Delany, who is seriously one of the greats, is “willing to discuss nearly anything but his own literary significance. Openly sharing the most intimate minutiae of his life—finances, hookup apps, Depends—he recoiled with Victorian modesty whenever I asked why he’d written his books or what they meant to his readers.”
The profile is a delight all the same.
How Samuel R. Delany Reimagined Sci-Fi, Sex, and the City
[The New Yorker]
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