Re: Delany List past

Yes, Fried's reminiscence was published there in a set of memorials
for Fiedler, who'd died in January 2003.

Best,
Ray

--- In [email protected], Ralph Dumain <rdumain@...> wrote:
>
> I'm still here, but I haven't read anything by Delany in some years, 
> sadly, and I've been otherwise preoccupied. However, I do think about 
> simplex-complex-multiplex.
> 
> Small world dept.: I was going over some of my old web pages, and I 
> found a surprising Delany reference:
> 
> "Leslie Fiedler and Me" 
> <http://autodidactproject.org/other/mfried/fiedler.html> by Emanuel Fried
> 
> Manny gave me this piece in 2003, but I overlooked the note saying it 
> was going to be published in . . .
> 
> /Fifties Fictions 
> <http://www.amazon.com/Fifties-Fictions-Samuel-R-Delany/dp/1929512120/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1308658579&sr=1-1>/ 
> by Samuel R. Delany and Josh Lukin
> 
> I've never seen this book, so I don't know if this happened, but I 
> assume it did.
> 
> See also:
> 
> Introduction to Para-Doxa, No. 18:
> "Under Gray Flannel: Introduction to Fifties Fictions"
> Josh Lukin
> http://paradoxa.com/excerpts/18intro.htm
> 
> Manny was a radical labor organizer who was blacklisted in the '50s and 
> took to playwrighting. Production & promulgation of his plays were 
> thwarted by the same people who opposed him as a union organizer. 
> Manny's proletarian drama was unique in American theater. It would not 
> have occurred to me to link him to Delany, but here we are.
> 
> 
> 
> On 6/3/2011 3:35 AM, Steve M wrote:
> >
> > Wow. A Google search just led me back into the archives of the Delany
> > list from nine years ago, when Ralph Dumain was here stirring things
> > up and there was active critical discussion of Delany's work in
> > detail. Kind of nice to know all that stuff is still floating out
> > there for those who want to discover it.
> >
> > http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.culture.sf.delany/month=20020301