Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 14:06:12 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Chip . . .was Re: Grad Schools
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

> twhite8 at cox.net 10/21/04 12:16:56 PM >>>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
>To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
>Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2004 12:03 PM
>Subject: [WSFA] Chip . . .was Re: Grad Schools
>
>> > twhite8 at cox.net 10/21/04 11:48:56 AM >>>
>>
>> >> re: degrees . . . I've been amused over Chip Delany
>being a
>> >tenured
>> >> professor of English and creative writing at Temple
>> >University.
>> >>
>> >> Why?
>> >>
>> >> Ain't got no degree . . . no BA, no MA . . .nada.  He did
>> >attend Bronx
>> >> high Scool of Science.
>> >
>> >A professor of English who couldn't spell.  Never learned
>to.
>>
>> His 1989 Hugo winning memoir, The Motion of Light on
>Water: Sex and
>> Science Fiction Writing in the East Village 1957-1965, was
>recently
>> reissued in trade pb.   Fascinating reading, though I must
>wonder what
>> it's like for his daughter to be reading about her parents'
>sexual
>> activities.  He is graphic without be prurient.
>>
>> He must have had a good copy editor.
>
>He usually has had.   His misspellings were notorious in NYC
>editing
>circles in the '60s.   I'd like to read his memoir; who published
>the trade
>pb?

Reissued earlier this year by the University of Minnesota Press.  ISBN:
0816645248, $18.95.  It has a trade discount so you should be able to
find it in Olssons, Borders, B&N, or wherever.  If not, there's the
usual online suspects.

The publisher site:
http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/D/delany_motion.html

The cover image is quite nice.

mjw

p.s.  No, I don't have copies for sale <g>

>
>--Ted White
>