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Selected Essays | Carina del Valle Schorske on Samuel Delany
Manage episode 424649691 series 1827168
On this episode of “Selected Essays,” Carina del Valle Schorske joins us to discuss Samuel Delany's 1996 essay “Times Square Blue” and her 2019 essay “The Ladder Up: A Restless History of Washington Heights,” which was published in the Virginia Quarterly Review.
(For more on Delany, check out this recent profile in the New Yorker by Julian Lucas.)
Chapters
1. Selected Essays | Carina del Valle Schorske on Samuel Delany (00:00:00)
2. Who is Samuel Delany? (00:01:36)
3. Reading the first passage (00:07:29)
4. Outsider to insider perspective (00:10:28)
5. Zoomed-in essays (00:14:07)
6. Genre (00:18:10)
7. Violating conventions (00:19:36)
8. Reading the second passage (00:21:27)
9. Is this good sex writing? (00:28:52)
10. Carina’s “The Ladder Up” (00:37:01)
11. Delany’s influence on Carina (00:44:05)
29 episodes
Manage episode 424649691 series 1827168
On this episode of “Selected Essays,” Carina del Valle Schorske joins us to discuss Samuel Delany's 1996 essay “Times Square Blue” and her 2019 essay “The Ladder Up: A Restless History of Washington Heights,” which was published in the Virginia Quarterly Review.
(For more on Delany, check out this recent profile in the New Yorker by Julian Lucas.)
Chapters
1. Selected Essays | Carina del Valle Schorske on Samuel Delany (00:00:00)
2. Who is Samuel Delany? (00:01:36)
3. Reading the first passage (00:07:29)
4. Outsider to insider perspective (00:10:28)
5. Zoomed-in essays (00:14:07)
6. Genre (00:18:10)
7. Violating conventions (00:19:36)
8. Reading the second passage (00:21:27)
9. Is this good sex writing? (00:28:52)
10. Carina’s “The Ladder Up” (00:37:01)
11. Delany’s influence on Carina (00:44:05)
29 episodes
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