in response to the question of how his Marxism relates to his writing, Delany offers: "As a fiction writer, I still want to know how my characters (and the characters in the stories my students write) support themselves--how they make their money, and how that situation is related to their various anxieties and, in general, the little twitches that characterize the human subject--what our marvelous story teller Grace Paley called the Little Disturbances of Man"
> from Conversations with Samuel R. Delany (2009), Carl Freedman, ed.
> tagged with #work, #communism, #psychology, #anxiety, #class, #fiction_writing
> created Mar 9, 2025 at 3:06:29 PM
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