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"Remarkable."-Salon"In a provocative and persuasively argued cri de coeur against New York City's gentrification and the redevelopment of Times Square in the name of 'family values and safety,' acclaimed science fiction writer Delany proves himself a dazzlingly eloquent and original social commentator. . . . This bracing and well-calibrated blend of journalism, personal history and cultural criticism will challenge readers of every persuasion."-Publishers Weekly"Measured but emotional, illuminating but challenging."-The San Francisco Chronicle"Essential."-The Nation"Reading this book reminds me, as few others in a lifetime of reading have done, just why it is that we so love our cities, what we value in them, and why the great ones become so. [Delany is] one of our finest social critics and one of our great writers."-James Sallis ,Rain Taxi
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About the Author
Samuel R. Delany is a renowned novelist and critic, whose award-winning fiction includes Dhalgren (1975), Babel-17 (1966), The Mad Man (1994), Dark Reflections (2007), and Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders (2012). In addition to receiving the William Whitehead Memorial Award and the Kessler Award for his lifetime contribution to lesbian and gay writing, Delany was chosen by the Lambda Book Report in 1988 as one of the fifty most influential people of the past hundred years to change our conception of queerness. After more than thirty years of teaching, first at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and later at Temple University, where he served as Director of the Graduate Creative Writing Program, Samuel Delany now lives with his partner in Philadelphia.
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Product details
Series: Sexual Cultures
Paperback: 203 pages
Publisher: New York University Press (November 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0814719201
ISBN-13: 978-0814719206
Product Dimensions:
6 x 0.6 x 8 inches
Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
3.2 out of 5 stars
18 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#173,122 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
Samuel Delany is best known as the author of science fiction novels such as Dhalgren. He is also the author of a brilliant memoir , The Motion of Light in Water.This book is ostensibly about the transformation of Times Square but it's also an extension and updating of Delany's memoir. Delany is not a disinterested observer.He's a participant in the activities he describes.That gives the book a power it would otherwise lack.Delany's focus is narrow. He is not writing so much about Times Square as he is about what I'll call "Porn World".That is the pornographic movie theaters,sex emporiums and bars that served the patrons of these places.The HQ of this Porn World is Times Square but its substation was around 3rd Ave and 14th St.(If you never saw it in the flesh , you may have seen it in Taxi Driver).Delany a brilliant highly educated intellectual, apparently loved these places.They were always doomed.There was no way the powers that be were going to allow Times Square a transportation hub and the nations premiere theater district to forever remain the domain of Jack The Stripper and Teenage Nurses.As for 14th St, once the East Village became hip and trendy and NYU needed land, that was it for the unusual forms of entertainment that thrived on the east side(along with a very low life drug culture).The book is made up of two essays .I enjoyed the first one more.It's basically a collection of musings and observations, usually interesting , sometimes funny.The second essay put me off at first.It is "theoretical ". However I had a slightly revelatory experience after I started reading it.I was looking at THE SPECTATOR and I came across an article where the author talked about meeting a former manager of Roxy Music and later one of the Sex Pistols through drinking in pubs.I said to myself, an example of contact rather than networking.In otherwords I picked up on a key concept from Delany and used it without even thinking about it .So what at first stuck me as an utterly abstruse essay turned out to be analytically useful.You could probably dismiss Delany as crazed and weird and maybe you'd be right but mixed in with the craziness is considerable wisdom.
Chip Delany, the writer/critic with the eight-inch... beard, has done it again. Two books in one, and both will give you lots to think about.The first ("warm") half is an account of the now-vanished culture of random sexual encounters that once flourished in the Times Square area, especially in the porno theaters: alternately funny and tragic, and quite authentic, as I can attest from my own visits to the Adonis in ancient times.The second ("cool") half is (indirectly) on the same subject: it's an essay dealing with the difference between "contact" and "networking" (I won't try to explain... read the book). Even though it never mentions the Internet by name, it says a lot about what the Internet is about, and what it's doing to us.
It seems like a lifetime ago, but before there was a Duane Reade, Starbucks, and TD Bank on every street corner, New York was a different place. Working class people could afford to live in the Village, Chelsea, and Hell's Kitchen or Clinton. Your neighbors were not all bland finance types who went to Wharton (I went to Penn, and I feel this way). Native New Yorkers actually worked waiter jobs and tended bar! New York was filled with rough and tumble guys who spoke English with non-Rhotic accents, lived in Single Room Occupancy houses, and those people rubbed elbows with college educated residents of the Upper West and East sides. There was a gritty-ness to the urban feel of New York street life, which now only exists in fleeting pockets, and is quickly being suplanted by the shining marble lobbies and spotless glass vitrines of LEED-certified office towers and luxury condos. Did I mention the Starbucks on every corner?In the 1990s a short-lived Disney Store opened on 42nd street next to the Disney renovated Amsterdam Theater. The efforts to "clean up" Times Square came to be known (perhaps unfairly) as the Disney-fication of the district, but Sam (Chip) Delany chronicles in time capsule-like fashion the lost micro-culture that was displaced in the process. 42nd street or the "Deuce" as it was called, was populated by a heterogenous intersection of rich, poor, white, black, able-bodied, and disabled who partook in the subversive sub-culture of adult movie houses and peep shows. Chip successfuly shows how the mixing of the classes in the underground gay sex cruising, straight prostitution, and sundry commerce that took place on the Deuce, brought together New Yorkers from different walks of life, thus serving a civic function. The book offers tremendous insight into the changes that led to the demise of the Deuce: Real estate prices, suburban growth, home video, the crack and HIV epidemics and perhaps more signifantly, the righteous panics they induced. This book is must reading for any urban planners, architects, social historians or young New Yorkers, interested in understanding what New York was like only a few years ago.
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS I HAVE EVER READ.
Not at all what I expected. In a good way.
Initially I thought it was going to cover the entire gay sex scene in and around Time Square before the renovation, not just the sex theater scene only, aside from that it was interesting to see how much things had changed, but I thought at least a chapter or two could have been dedicated to parks, restrooms, the backrooms of bars, leather bars, the wharf, the truck docks, etc.
mr. delany's personal/analytical accounts are something truly inspiring.
Delivered on time and in pretty great condition.I didn't really like the book though. Although at times it was thought provoking, it just wasn't really my thing. At times, it felt a bit over the top. It was interesting, for certain, and really touched on important topics. However, stylistically, it just wasn't my thing.
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