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[go_team]

So um, who's read The Dispossessed and wants to geek out about it lit nerd style? Extra bonus points if you find a copy of Samuel R. Delany's Jewel-Hinged Jaw and read his essay about The Dispossessed first. Right now I'm at the stage where I'm taking notes on the novel and getting myself psyched up to read the essay before it tells me I'm all wrong and a grotesquely ugly freak, so you've got time to get your reading on and catch up with me, especially if you've already read The Dispossessed, which I hadn't until earlier this month because I'm defective or something.

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[goteam.livejournal.com]

I'm still in the rereading and filtering ideas stage of having read The Dispossessed, but it's thought-provoking for sure. The Jewel-Hinged Jaw is wonderful because Delany is such a freakin' good writer, and he gives the essays in it as much thought as he's given his short stories and novels and.... I think I'll have to write a "why I'm so obsessed with Samuel Delany right now" entry. The book, alas, is out of print as far as I know: Powells didn't have a copy on Wednesday, although they did have two other books of Delany nonfiction (criticism/autobiography). But it will be mine one way or another eventually, oh yes. (The copy I'm reading right now is from the U. of O library.)