Heavenly Breakfast
1979 memoir by Samuel R. Delany
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Author | Samuel R. Delany |
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Language | English |
Genre | Non-fiction |
Publication date | 1979 |
Publication place | United States |
Media type | Print (Paperback) |
Heavenly Breakfast: An Essay on the Winter of Love is a 1979 memoir by author, professor, and critic Samuel R. Delany.[1] It details the time he spent living in a commune in New York City during the winter of 1967–1968,[2] although altering some details.[3]
Heavenly Breakfast was also the name of the rock band that lived in the commune, which consisted of Steve Wiseman, Susan Schweers, Bert Lee (later of the Central Park Sheiks),[4] and Delany.[5]
The book is one of several autobiographical works by Delany.[6]
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- ^ Andrews, William L.; Foster, Frances Smith; Harris, Trudier (2001-02-15). The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature. Oxford University Press. p. 104. ISBN 9780198031758.
- ^ "The doomfiles - SAMUEL.html". Obsidianrook.com. Retrieved 2011-04-02.
- ^ Nelson, Emmanuel Sampath (2002). African American Autobiographers: A Sourcebook. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 85–86. ISBN 9780313314094.
- ^ "Central Park Sheiks in Greenwich Village on May 15, 1974 : Monte Barry : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive". Retrieved 2011-04-02.
- ^ "Samuel R. Delany by K. Leslie Steiner". Pseudopodium.org. Retrieved 2011-04-02.
- ^ Delany, Samuel R. (2009). Conversations with Samuel R. Delany - Google Books. ISBN 9781604732788. Retrieved 2011-04-02.
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Samuel R. Delany
- The Jewels of Aptor (1962)
- The Ballad of Beta-2 (1965)
- Empire Star (1966)
- Babel-17 (1966)
- The Einstein Intersection (1967)
- Nova (1968)
- Equinox (1973)
- Dhalgren (1975)
- Trouble on Triton (1976)
- Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand (1984)
- They Fly at Çiron (1993)
- The Mad Man (1994)
- Hogg (1995)
- Phallos (2004)
- Dark Reflections (2007)
- Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders (2012)
- Captives of the Flame (1963)
- The Towers of Toron (1964)
- City of a Thousand Suns (1965)
- Tales of Nevèrÿon (1979)
- Neveryóna, or: The Tale of Signs and Cities (1983)
- Flight from Nevèrÿon (1985)
- Return to Nevèrÿon (1987)
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- Heavenly Breakfast (1979)
- The Motion of Light in Water (1988)
- The Straits of Messina (1989)
- Silent Interviews (1995)
- Longer Views (1996)
- Times Square Red, Times Square Blue (1999)
- Shorter Views (2000)