"Let me say right now that I absolutely adore this author and just about everything she wrote. But increasingly I love her interviews and essays. I found myself skimming through her observations and responses to questions here and saying 'Yes! Yes! Yes!' Perhaps you will too."
Publisher Melville House
Publication Date 2019-02-05
Section New Titles - Paperback / Literary Crit & Biography / All Staff Suggestions / Nonfiction Suggestions / Alan H.
Format Paperback
ISBN 9781612197791
“Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words.” —Ursula K. Le Guin When she began writing in the 1960s, Ursula K. Le Guin was as much of a literary outsider as one can be: a woman writing in a landscape dominated by men, a science fiction and fantasy author in an era that dismissed “genre” literature as unserious, and a westerner living far from fashionable East Coast publishing circles. The interviews collected here—spanning a remarkable forty years of productivity, and covering everything from her Berkeley childhood to Le Guin envisioning the end of capitalism—highlight that unique perspective, which conjured some of the most prescient and lasting books in modern literature.