But that was also an opportunity to get a look at the future of the field. There were more first year graduate students and even undergraduate papers than I expected. Overall the conference presenters were much younger than I expected, as my CUNY friend also observed. I presented on Samuel Delany’s Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders, and, appropriately enough, the title of my panel was “Navigating Normativity: Southern Style.” After an informal poll at the beginning of my talk I was a bit surprised to find that none of the people in the room (save for one CUNY Grad Center colleague) had heard of Delany at all! Hopefully I provided a good introduction and created a few new Delany readers. This was my first time in Asheville and it was as picturesque as advertised.
Navigating Normativity UNC-Asheville Biennial Queer Studies Conference April 2-4 This unboxing video by a Centipede Press fan shows just how beautifully crafted this volume is: However, there are regular copies of Nova readily available in paperback and e-book ( via the author’s website).īack in March I took a trip to Philly to do a virtual event with Chip (more about that in another post) where I signed the last of the Nova signature pages. There are only 300 copies of this edition, each of them numbered and signed by all three of us, and they all sold out pretty quickly. Delany (and tarot cards by Russell FitzGerald), an introduction by yours truly, and illustrations by Piotr Jabloński. The edition features the full text of Nova by Samuel R.
I was invited by Centipede Press and Chip Delany to write an introduction to Nova for this special hardcover edition of the classic 1968 space opera. But this volume deserves mention here, and I am grateful that I was able to play a small role in it. It feels a little weird to post about a new book that is already out of print.
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