Copy-editing is a luxury newspapers can no longer afford. Which means you're going to see a lot more stories like one, a feature on Samuel R. Delany in the Philadelphia Inquirer:
-- "Delany's later books deftly apply the dense theories of Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Michel Althusser" ....I think you mean Louis Althusser?
-- "David Hartwell, publisher of the New York Review of Science Fiction and a senior editor at Tor/Forge, a major sci-fi publishing house, says Delany was one of a number of young writers, including Thomas M. Dish..." That would be "Disch."
-- " 'His range of characters was unprecedented,' said Philadelphia sci-fi and fantasy writer Michael Swankier." Sigh. Swanwick, you idiot.
This was harder to check:
"Much of Delany's post-sci-fi output explores gay sexuality - a subject of intense personal interest to Delany, who says he has had "at least 50,000 sexual partners, all of the passing and very casual sort." That's three or four a day, every day of the year, for 40 years. Possible, perhaps, but how did he find the time to write all those books?
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