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The Motion of Light in Water: Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village, 1957-1965

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    …a Hugo for the autobiographical The Motion of Light in Water (1988). The voices of novelist John Edgar Wideman (who twice won the PEN/Faulkner Award given by the international writers’ organization Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists, and Novelists [PEN]) and his incarcerated brother Robby in Brothers and Keepers (1984), one of…

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