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Originally Posted by kennyc
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That's a great interview! But don't stop there -- you'll even find interviews with writers like Hemingway and Nabokov (the latter writer being one of Samuel Delany's heroes).
I think of Sam (or Chip, as he's often called) as a friend, but so did the street booksellers with whom I sometimes used to see him on St. Mark's Place. Being friendly to people in the community seems to be a moral decision on his part, and one that he takes seriously.
If you lived in New York, I'd invite you to a reading we're doing with Chip at an art gallery in December -- a gallery which is also the home of the sightless and benevolent writer who runs it, an elderly statesman of the Lower East Side who has helped more younger writers in his lifetime than there are names for Allah.