deeply observed." - USA Today "A book that truly does matter. Billionaires, all of us." "The pages sparkle with lines that make a reader glance up, searching for an available ear with which to share them." - Melissa Febos, New York Times Book Review "Witty. The collected best of Ursula's blog, No Time to Spare presents perfectly crystallized dispatches on what mattered to her late in life, her concerns with the world, and her wonder at it: "How rich we are in knowledge, and in all that lies around us yet to learn. In the last great frontier of life, old age, she explored a new literary territory: the blog, a forum where she shined. Le Guin took readers to imaginary worlds for decades. So what is 'escapism' an accusation of?" On breakfast: "Eating an egg from the shell takes not only practice, but resolution, even courage, possibly willingness to commit crime." Ursula K.
Le Guin on the absurdity of denying your age: "If I'm ninety and believe I'm forty-five, I'm headed for a very bad time trying to get out of the bathtub." On cultural perceptions of fantasy: "The direction of escape is toward freedom. Le Guin, a collection of thoughts-always adroit, often acerbic-on aging, belief, the state of literature, and the state of the nation. Everybody is local somewhere.From acclaimed author Ursula K. Hey Portland: Le Guin is local in the sense that Ken Kesey is local. Critic Harold Bloom classifies it as her masterpiece. I have reserved Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness at the Phoenix public library. I loved this book of essays they are combative, amusing and stimulating. LeGuin’s answer? Where is the great American novel by anybody? Who cares? She adds: Tell you true, I’ve never heard a woman writer say the phrase “the great American novel” without a sort of snort. “Where is the great American novel by a woman?” her interlocutor asks. (TGAN standing for The Great American Novel, a designation Le Guin says is “coy” and “coercive.”) (That’s what History does after most wars, when it applauds the victors for their superior virtue as well as their superior firepower. He is important.Īnd please read her essay written in November 2013, at which point she is 82 years old with more than 60 years of publishing behind her. Le Guin, No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters 5 likes Like If we insist that in the real world the ultimate victor must be the good guy, we’ve sacrificed right to might. No Time to Spare is subdivided into four parts, each of which is paused by considerations of Le Guin’s cat Pard. Perhaps you could use a sample of her skill as an essayist.
My copy of No Time to Spare came with a list of 23 selected books of fiction, 11 books of poetry and two translation, all composed by Le Guin.
Ursula Le Guin is what the French would call an eminence grise: “a person who exercises power or influence in a certain sphere without holding an official position.” Particularly now, when the cultural uproar the world is undergoing requires us to rethinking what is Speculative Fiction and what is Reality. Yet this book of essays initiated me into taking Le Guin seriously.
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