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Ursula Le Guin has found herself sitting comfortably in a place of honour amongst some of the most distinguished authors of all time. The University Press of Mississippi is publishing Conversations with Ursula K. Le Guin, adding to a distinguished series that in the past has featured Ernest Hemingway, Gore Vidal, Isaac Asimov, Jack Kerouac, [...]
Tempest Bradford links to Shaun C. Green who has declared today post-a-rejection-letter Friday. Tempest also links to an INSANE rejection of Ursula K. Le Guin’s brilliant Left Hand of Darkness which is one of my favourite books of all time. The person who wrote that letter clearly read an entirely different book. Possibly one by [...]
The queen spent the whole night thinking over all the names she had ever heard. Rumplestiltskin as collected by the Brothers Grimm "Let him be named as soon as may be," said the Mage, "for he needs his name." ... Thus he was given his name by one very wise in the uses of power. Ursula K. Le Guin. A Wizard of Earthsea ...and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof. And...
The Agony Column podcast-interviews Karen Joy Fowler ( Wit's End ). Recent NPR broadcasts feature JK Rowling's Harvard commencement speech and Ursula K. Le Guin's You Must Read This column about Boris Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago . [via Locus Online ] Times Online profiles Terry Pratchett . "Author and Alzheimer's sufferer Terry Pratchett tells Bryan Appleyard how he is controlling the progress of the...
Poetry News: — With her new novel, Lavinia, fantasy and science fiction virtuoso Ursula K. Le Guin vividly fills some of the blanks in Vergil's Aeneid — — “I’m trying to get people to see a book as an aesthetic artifact, not as a generic container,” says Dave Wofford, who operates the one-man letterpress Horse and Buggy [...]
39 stories. 7 by women. I had to find that out in the bookshop, because no review of it I’d read mentioned the one thing I wanted to know: by how much was it predominantly male? Answer: by just over 82%. Ursula K. Le Guin is in it (”Coming of Age in Karhide”) and so is [...]
You can look at pictures or listen to music or read a book on your computer, but these artifacts are made accessible by the Web, not created by it and not intrinsic to it. Ursula K. Le Guin, "Staying Awake: Notes on the alleged decline of reading," Harper's , January 2008, pp. 33-38. Quote is from p. 37. Thanks for reading this, which, originally, did not come from the WWW.
FirstShowing.net showcases the new, nice-looking poster for The Dark Knight . SFF World interviews Tim Lebbon ( Dusk , Dawn and Fallen ). The Book Show podcast-interviews Ursula K. Le Guin . [via SFFaudio ] Vimeo has video of Bruce Sterling 's March 2007 talk at the Innovations Forum. Remember Spimes? Free audio fiction: Escape Pod podcasts Elizabeth Bear's Hugo-nominated " Tideline ". Fanboy points...
Breaking into the Spell An interview with Ursula K. Le Guin By Alexander Chee for Guernica February 2008 Ursula LeGuin speaks from beyond the genre ghetto in about her new book Lavinia and the perils of writing against realism. Chee writes in the introduction: "I was interested in finding the Le Guin whose insistence on a career as a woman of letters, in the broadest sense, has led her to
by Ursula K. Le Guin TLoH, my favorite LeGuin novel, is quite untypical for LeGuin and can be be allocated to the class of SF novels that take one idea to its logical extreme. It’s about a guy whose dreams become reality and who is used as a tool by his therapist to reshape reality. The [...]
by Ursula K. Le Guin Instead of trying to tell a good story (as a carrier for its theme) this book clobbers the reader repeatedly over the head with it’s obvious allegory on cultural and ecological rape through humans. This time the humans do their nasty deeds to an alien culture and LeGuin successfully repeats her [...]
'Why Are Americans Afraid of Dragons?" asked Ursula K. Le Guin in 1973, just ahead (as events proved) of an enormous boom in popular fantasy, dragonish and otherwise.
