I'm gotten so far behind in my reading that the future has done gone and passed me up.
I just saw the April 5 issue of New York magazine only to find an article (http://nymag.com/arts/books/features/65111/) on Samuel R. Delany's Dhalgren. That famously "unreadable" epic novel. “It took me roughly a year to read Dhalgren for the first time,” Scheib says. “I would read the same ten pages over and over and over again.” The loop structure impelled him to keep coming back. “You get the feeling that the story has been going on like a fugue for millennia,” he says. “The second time you read it, it’s thrilling. The third time, it makes you high. After that it’s like reading philosophy.” [Hi, Craig.] Scheib, Jay Scheib, apparently likes hallucinating, so he turned Dhalgren into the second leg of the his "sci-fi" trilogy. (The first? “Untitled Mars (This Title May Change).”) [Hi, Craig.] Don't go charging into New York to see it. It's gone. Over. Finished. A limited, ten-day run. It may even have been good. The New York Times (http://theater.nytimes.com/2010/04/07/theater/ reviews/07bellona.html) "Yet what an engrossing world Mr. Scheib and his fine ensemble have created. Tanya Selvaratnam’s elegantly mad housewife is a subversive delight, seeming sometimes to belong to another play entirely, and Mikéah Ernest Jennings’s navigation of racial stereotypes is slyly sophisticated." But the real news is buried deep inside the New York mag article. Delany has a new novel. Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders, due in November. And it isn't finished yet. Remind me to read it in 2043. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en.
