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The Motion of Light in Water
Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East VillageBy Samuel R. DelanyNarrated by Stefan Rudnicki
Length19h 29m
About this audiobook
Born in New York City’s black ghetto Harlem at the start of World War II, Samuel R. Delany married white poet Marilyn Hacker right out of high school. The interracial couple moved into the city’s new bohemian quarter, the Lower East Side, in summer 1961.
Through the decade’s opening years, new art, new sexual practices, new music, and new political awareness burgeoned among the crowded streets and cheap railroad apartments. Beautifully, vividly, insightfully, Delany calls up this era of exploration and adventure as he details his development as a black gay writer in an open marriage, with tertiary walk-ons by Bob Dylan, Stokely Carmichael, W. H. Auden, and James Baldwin, and a panoply of brilliantly drawn secondary characters.
Audiobook details
GenreBiography and Memoir
Length19 hrs 29 mins
Narrated byStefan Rudnicki
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateJun 27, 2020
LanguageEnglish
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