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Posts Tagged: theater

Theater-Wise: A Very Short Q&A With Niki Selken from Ko Labs

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A couple days ago, I saw this short blog post in Publishers’ Weekly that asked whether writers could make more money by putting on literary performances than by selling books (short answer: no.)

This dismissal seemed premature to me. I like to think that the lack of willingness among the general public to attend readings comes from that fact that many writers, probably including myself, don’t think much about how to perform.

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Staging A Beautiful Apocalypse

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Today is the birthday of one of my very favorite living writers, Samuel R. Delany.

(I spoke once here before about how I share with Junot Diaz an abiding love for Delany’s work.)

All it took for him to become my favorite was to read his legendary, mind-boggling and notorious sci-fi apocalyptic epic Dhalgren a few years back when I was living in an old Edwardian in the Sunset District of San Francisco and working for lawyers in the Lake Merritt District of Oakland.

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