{"id":10264,"date":"2017-04-03T20:21:05","date_gmt":"2017-04-04T00:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=10264"},"modified":"2017-12-27T12:18:29","modified_gmt":"2017-12-27T16:18:29","slug":"episode-212-samuel-r-delany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-212-samuel-r-delany","title":{"rendered":"Episode 212 – Samuel R. Delany"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show 212:
\nSamuel R. Delany<\/a><\/p>\n

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“The most important thing I thought students needed was the one thing you’re never allowed to teach.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>Legendary author (and longtime pal) Samuel R. Delany<\/a> (a.k.a. Chip) joins the show to talk about the sex lives of older gay men, how he’s taken to Facebook<\/a>, how losing his library was\u00a0akin to lobotomization, the writers he misses, Star Wars<\/em>, his attraction to homeless men, retiring from teaching, the one thing he wanted to teach students but was never allowed to, the split between good writing and award-winning writing, and his passive-aggressive technique for getting me to organize a breakfast brunch for him. (It worked; there are pictures on my Instagram feed<\/a>.) Give it a listen!<\/a> And go buy lots of Chip’s books<\/a>!<\/p>\n

“When you lose several thousand books and you’re a writer, that’s kind of like having a lobotomy. . . . I have the desire for exactitude but no method to achieve it unless I have texts in front of me.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n