Books by Temple University MFA-Fiction faculty
Explore acclaimed books by Temple University's MFA-Fiction faculty. Discover novels, short stories, and literary works from award-winning authors and professors shaping the next generation of writers.
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Dhalgren
by Samuel R. Delany
In one of the most profound and bestselling science fiction novels of all time, Samuel R. Delany has produced a novel "to stand with the …
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The Fall of the Towers
by Samuel R. Delany
Come and enter Samuel Delany’s tomorow, in this trilogy of high adventure, with acrobats and urchins, criminals and courtiers, fishermen and factory-workers, madmen and mind-readers, …
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Nova
by Samuel R. Delany
Given that the suns of Draco stretch almost sixteen light years from end to end, it stands to reason that the cost of transportation is …
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Babel-17/Empire Star
by Samuel R. Delany
Author of the bestselling Dhalgren and winner of four Nebulas and one Hugo, Samuel R. Delany is one of the most acclaimed writers of speculative …
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Aye, and Gomorrah
by Samuel R. Delany
A father must come to terms with his son's death in the war. In Venice an architecture student commits a crime of passion. A white …
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Hogg
by Samuel R. Delany
One of America's most famous 'unpublishable' novels, Hogg explores America's culture of sexual violence and degneration. Delany explores his disturbing protagonist Hogg on his own …
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Country of Origin: A Novel
by Don Lee
A dazzling debut novel by the prize-winning author of Yellow, set in the unique and exotic nightworld of Tokyo. In this "poignant story of prejudice, …
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A Farewell to Justice
by Joan Mellen
Breaking their silence, witnessees expose a cover-up in JFK's assassination
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Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand
by Samuel R. Delany
The story of a truly galactic civilization with over 6,000 inhabited worlds.
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Dark Reflections
by Samuel R. Delany
The story Arnold Hawley, a gay African-American poet living in New York City's East Village, beginning in his disillusioned elder years and ending with his …
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Tales of Nevèrÿon
by Samuel R. Delany
This 1979 American Book Award nominee contains five interlocked stories that tell of the slave Gorgik in a long-ago land, and a masked swordswoman narrates …
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The Jewel-Hinged Jaw
by Samuel R. Delany
Samuel R. Delany’s The Jewel-Hinged Jaw appeared originally in 1977, and is now long out of print and hard to find. The impact of its …
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The Motion of Light in Water
by Samuel R. Delany
Originally published: New York: R. Kasak, 1993.
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Times Square Red, Times Square Blue
by Samuel R. Delany
As issues of history and memory collide in our society and in the classroom, the time is ripe to rethink the place of history in …
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The Charnel Imp
by Alan Singer
Tells the story of a remote prairie town and its bizarre inhabitants, includi Moertle, who drives steers to the slaughterhouse, a doctor obsessed with dea …
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The Subject as Action
by Alan Singer
Demonstrates the relation of narrative art to literary and philosophical speculations about human subjectivity
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The Self-deceiving Muse
by Alan Singer
"Focuses on the phenomenon of self-deception, and proposes a radical revision of our commonplace understanding of it as a token of irrationality. Argues that self-deception …
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Seven Samurai
by Joan Mellen
A classic account of a masterpiece by an author who knew Kurosawa.
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In the Realm of the Senses
by Joan Mellen
Declared obscene in Japan, where it has never been shown in its entirety, Oshima Nagisa's In the Realm of the Senses, was shown uncut at …
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Hellman and Hammett
by Joan Mellen
In the first dual biography of Lillian Hellman and Dashiell Hammett, New York Times bestselling author Joan Mellen sheds new light on two of the …
