In Search of Silence: The Journals of Samuel R. Delany, Volume I, 1957-1969 Conflict Resolution from "a rising public intellectual

from "a rising public intellectual unafraid to make bold connections between past and present" (The New York Times)

then collapses

In 1919 the distinguished scholar Walter Evans-Wentz visited an Indian monastery

She reads curled up in the sewer drain by Venice Beach under the shot-out flashing Chevron light

always funky

In Search of Silence: The Journals of Samuel R. Delany, Volume I, 1957-1969 Conflict Resolution from "a rising public intellectualThe private journals of renowned novelist and critic Samuel R. Delany For fifty years Samuel Delany has cultivated a special relationship with language in works of fiction, criticism, and memoir that have garnered critical praise and legions of fans. The present volume the first in a series reveals a new dimension of his genius. In Search of Silence presents over a decade's worth of Delany's private journals, commencing in 1957 when he was still a