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[goteam]

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

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[morganlf]

I've read it and taught it to my students. heh. i would love to geek out.

[iainuki]

I'm curious: what makes The Jewel-Hinged Jaw so awesome? (I'm wondering if I should try to acquire a copy of this book in some nearer-term fashion.)

I, alas, have not read The Dispossessed. I assume it is also awesome for some reason that I am not aware?

[goteam]

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.)

[goteam]

Heh. I have an autographed copy of Ted the Cow by Dan Bern, but everything else I've ever gotten signed is nonfiction, because I am a scholar groupie: bell hooks' Feminism is for Everybody, George Lakoff's Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things, and Stephen Pinker's Words and Rules.

Like I mentioned before, I'm in the digesting and taking notes phase of rereading The Dispossessed, and I'm a little afraid Delany's analysis is going to take mine to pieces. But I'm still looking forward to reading it.