Урсула Ле Гуин - Ursula K. Le Guin - The Last Interview and Other Conversations

“In a World of Her Own” © 1984 by Nora Gallagher. First published in Mother Jones, January 1984 as “Ursula Le Guin: In a World of Her Own.”

“Driven by a Different Chauffeur” © 2001 by Nick Gevers. First published by SF Site, a web magazine, in its November/December 2001 issue.

“Song of Herself” © 2013 by Bridget Huber. First published in California Magazine, Spring 2013.

“Homeward Bound” © 2018 by David Streitfeld.

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Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea. Bantam: 1975, p. 18.

“Getting Away with Murder,” The Millions, Paul Morton, January 31, 2013. https://themillions.com/2013/01/getting-away-with-murder-the-millions-interviews-ursula-k-le-guin.html.

“My Last Conversation with Ursula K. Le Guin,” Literary Hub, John Freeman, January 24, 2018. https://lithub.com/my-last-conversation-with-ursula-k-le-guin/.

“2001 Book Awards”. Pacific Northwest Bookseller Association. Archived from the original on June 21, 2013. Interview by Cindy Heidemann. https://web.archive.org/web/20130621065514/http://www.pnba.org/2001BookAwards.html

On the Media, hosted by Bob Garfield and Brooke Gladstone and produced by WNYC; broadcast by WNYC; January 26, 2018.

Irv Broughton, The Writer’s Mind: Interviews With American Authors, Vol. 2 (University of Arkansas Press, 1990).

Helene Escudie, Entretein avec Ursula K. Le Guin , in “Conversations With Ursula K. Le Guin,” edited by Carl Freedman (University Press of Mississippi, 2008).

“An Interview with Ursula K. Le Guin,” Association of Writers & Writing Programs, Ramola D, October/November 2003. https://www.awpwriter.org/magazine_media/writers_chronicle_view/2293/an_interview_with_ursula_k._le_guin.

“Ursula Le Guin talks Sci-fi Snobbery, Adaptations, & Troublemaking,” Den of Geek , Louisa Mellor, April 7, 2015. https://www.denofgeek.com/us/books-comics/ursula-le-guin/245224/ursula-le-guin-talks-sci-fi-snobbery-adaptations-troublemaking.

Larry McCaffery and Sinda Gregory, Alive and Writing: Interviews With American Authors of the 1980s (University of Illinois Press, 1987).

“An Interview with Ursula K. Le Guin,” AWP, Ramona D, October/November 2003.

“Ursula K. Le Guin, The Art of Fiction No. 221,” The Paris Review, John Wray, Fall 2013, Issue 206. https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6253/ursula-k-le-guin-the-art-of-fiction-no-221-ursula-k-le-guin.

The Book Show , hosted by Ramona Koval and produced by the Australian Broadcasting Commission; broadcast by ABC Radio National; May 4, 2008.

Irv Broughton, The Writer’s Mind: Interviews With American Authors , Vol. 2 (University of Arkansas Press, 1990).

“Twenty Questions with Ursula K. Le Guin,” The Times Literary Supplement, March 4, 2017. https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/twenty-questions-ursula-le-guin/.

Jonathan Ward, “Interview with Ursula K. Le Guin,” Algol No. 24, May 1975.

The anima is the unconscious feminine side of a man; the animus is the unconscious masculine side of a woman.

Erich von Daniken’s Chariots of the Gods? Unsolved Mysteries of the Past was a huge bestseller in the early 1970s. It posited that ancient civilizations had been helped along by alien visitors.

The novel was published as The Eye of the Heron.

A professor of theoretical physics at Cal, Oppenheimer ran the Los Alamos nuclear lab during World War II and is considered the father of the atomic bomb.

The turnips were rhetorical—Nick Gevers

“Introducing Myself.” Appearing in Left Bank , archived at https://www.scholarsonline.org/~godsflunky/LeGuin_Intr_myself.pdf.

She wasn’t, quite. A last Earthsea story, “Firelight”—a moving account of Ged’s dying, with Tenar by his side—appeared in the Summer 2018 issue of The Paris Review, six months after Le Guin’s own death.