In a year-old article in Reason Bidisha Banerjee ties Samuel R. Delaney's sprawling 1975 novel Dhalgren in to the chaos of New Orleans:
"This surreal work of science fiction seemed especially apt last week, as fires raged and stories of racism, rape, looting, and murder proliferated, and then–FEMA head Mike Brown continued to blame the victims who had not evacuated the city... thousands of the city's approximately 10,000 remaining residents remained adamant in their resolve to stay. Dhalgren suggests what the holdouts might find if they succeed."

You know your writing has infected minds when they hold academic symposiums to discuss you, and you're not even dead yet. Steven Shaviro's take on the March, 2006 Delaney conference and L. Timmel Duchamp's.