Re: Dark Reflections

--- In [email protected], David Carlton <carlton@...> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 07 Oct 2006 20:09:13 -0000, "vpoleganov" <vpoleganov@...> said:
> 
> > Amazon.com has a listing for the upcoming Delany novel.
> 
> From the title (_Dark Reflections_) and the Amazon page, it wasn't
> obvious to me that it was fiction.  Googling a bit more, though, I ran
> across <http://sodsbrood.com/dhalgren/?p=146>, which does label it as
> a novel.  Read the whole page, but here's one relevant paragraph:
> 
>   He read from a book soon-to-be-published titled, Dark Reflections (I
>   think I have that correct). Delany has not written SF in years,
>   preferring he said in recent years to write "micro histories" which
>   seem to be a sort of revisionist history highly focused around one
>   event or locale. Dark Reflections is a reflection on race, and
>   homosexuality. In particular, Delany wants to foreground how
>   Stonewall's racial composition was sidelined by the gay rights
>   movement; Stonewall was a predominantly black and Hispanic bar, he
>   said at one point.
> 
> David Carlton
> carlton@...
>

Yes, this blog entry, as well as another one from a Clarion attentant,
were my sources of information about the work too. It's a bit
confusing because L. Timmel Duchamp wrote in her essay (A Delany Love
Fest) that the upcoming novel's title was Shoat Rumblin. Maybe that's
Shoat. Or maybe another novel is coming soon too (which will be too
good to be true). 





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