Ursula's 2009 essay collection Cheek By Jowl is now available as an audiobook, narrated by Christina Moore.
Ursula with her Nebula Award for The Left Hand of Darkness, 1970
And four more images from the Croatian edition of The Compass Rose! These are by Daria Čičmir Marković.
This week on In Your Spare Time, Molly Gloss reads post 8, "The Sissy Strikes Back," from November 2010.
"I’ve lost faith in the saying 'You’re only as old as you think you are' ever since I got old," Ursula begins in this post about aging, and who exactly it's "for."
"Le Guin demonstrates why imaginative worldbuilding is an exercise worth pursuing, crafting a narrative that explores the human condition and the nature of empathy. It also happens to be a ripping good read." —Jay Gabler, reporter, Duluth News Tribune, on The Left Hand of Darkness
The Complete Earthsea box set, with art by Olivia Lomenech Gill, is coming this fall from Library of America.
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On this week's episode of In Your Spare Time, writer, editor, and scholar Brian Attebery reads post 7, "A Band of Brothers, a Stream of Sisters," from November 2010.
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Turns out nominating for the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize gets you entered into the ballot for last year's shortlist and you might even win.
Thanks especially to @mollytempleton.com for sorting sending them and everyone involved in the @ursulakleguin.com Prize for all the work they do over the year.
November 2010 I have come to see male group solidarity as an immensely powerful force in human affairs, more powerful, perhaps, than the feminism of the late twentieth century took into account. It...
This week, Molly Gloss reads Post 8, "The Sissy Strikes Back," which Ursula posted in November of 2010. The original post can be read at Molly Gloss's website is
Listen to the audiobook Cheek by Jowl, written by Ursula K. Le Guin, narrated by Christina Moore.
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This week, Brian Attebery reads Post 7, "A Band of Brothers, a Stream of Sisters," which Ursula posted in November 2010. The original post can be read at
November 2010 I’ve lost faith in the saying “You’re only as old as you think you are” ever since I got old. It is a saying with a fine heritage. It goes right back to the idea of the Power of Posit...
