Ursula Le Guin - Ursula K. Le Guin - Conversations on Writing

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URSULA K. LE GUINpublished twenty-one novels, eleven volumes of short stories, four collections of essays, twelve books for children, six volumes of poetry and four of translation, and has received the Hugo, Nebula, Endeavor, Locus, Tiptree, Sturgeon, PEN/Malamud, and National Book awards and the Pushcart and Janet Heidinger Kafka prizes, among others.

In recent years she has received lifetime achievement awards from the World Fantasy Awards, Los Angeles Times , Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association, and Willamette Writers, as well as the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Grand Master Award, the Library of Congress “Living Legend” award, and the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. Le Guin was the recipient of the Association for Library Service to Children’s May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture Award and the Margaret Edwards Award. She lived in Portland, Oregon, and her website is www.ursulakleguin.com.

DAVID NAIMONis a writer and the host of the radio show and podcast Between the Covers in Portland, Oregon. His work has appeared in Tin House , AGNI , Fourth Genre , Boulevard , ZYZZYVA , and elsewhere. His writing has been reprinted in The Best Small Fictions 2016 and cited in the 2016 Pushcart Prize volume, The Best American Essays 2015 , and The Best American Travel Writing 2015 . His podcast and writing can be found at www.davidnaimon.com

Page 19: Excerpt from To The Lighthouse , by Virginia Woolf. Copyright © 1927, Hogarth Press.

Page 20: Excerpt from The Fellowship of the Ring , by J. R. R. Tolkien. Copyright © 1954, George Allen & Unwin.

Page 23: Excerpt from 1984 , by George Orwell. Copyright © 1949, Secker & Warburg.

Page 28: Excerpt from The Dispossessed , by Ursula K. Le Guin. Copyright © 1974, Harper & Row.

Page 29: Excerpt from The Left Hand of Darkness , by Ursula K. Le Guin. Copyright © 1969, Ace Books.

Page 63: “Riding The Coast Starlight,” from Going Out with Peacocks , by Ursula K. Le Guin. Copyright © 1994, Harper Perennial.

Page 66: “The Small Indian Pestle at the Applegate House,” from Late in the Day: Poems 2010–2014 , by Ursula K. Le Guin. Copyright © 2016, PM Press.

Page 69: Excerpt from the foreword to Late in the Day: Poems 2010–2014 , by Ursula K. Le Guin. Copyright © 2016, PM Press.

Page 72–73: “Contemplation at McCoy Creek,” from Late in the Day: Poems 2010–2014 , by Ursula K. Le Guin. Copyright © 2016, PM Press.

Page 78–79: “Muro” & “Wall,” from The Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral (translated by Ursula K. Le Guin). Copyright © 2003, University of New Mexico Press.

Page 98: Excerpt from “Living in a Work of Art,” from Words Are My Matter: Writing About Life & Books, 2000–2016 , by Ursula K. Le Guin. Copyright © 2016, Small Beer Press.

Page 107: Excerpt from “The Operating Instructions,” from Words Are My Matter: Writing About Life & Books, 2000–2016 , by Ursula K. Le Guin. Copyright © 2016, Small Beer Press.

Page 112–113: Excerpt from “The Beast in the Book,” from Words Are My Matter: Writing About Life & Books, 2000–2016 , by Ursula K. Le Guin. Copyright © 2016, Small Beer Press.

Page 120–122: Excerpt from “Disappearing Grandmothers,” from Words Are My Matter: Writing About Life & Books, 2000–2016 , by Ursula K. Le Guin. Copyright © 2016, Small Beer Press.

Page 135–137: Excerpt from “On Serious Literature,” from Words Are My Matter: Writing About Life & Books, 2000–2016 , by Ursula K. Le Guin. Copyright © 2016, Small Beer Press.

Copyright © 2018 Ursula K. Le Guin and David Naimon

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Names: Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-2018 author, interviewee. | Naimon, David, author, interviewer.

Title: Ursula K. Le Guin : conversations on writing / [Ursula K. Le Guin] with David Naimon.

Description: First U.S. edition. | Portland, OR : Tin House Books, 2018.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018003429 | ISBN 9781941040997 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781947793002 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929—Interviews. | Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929—Authorship. | Women authors, American—20th century—Biography. | Authors, American—20th century—Interviews. | Science fiction—Authorship. | Fantasy fiction—Authorship. | Authorship. | Literature. | United States—Civilization. Classification: LCC PS3562.E42 Z46 2018 | DDC 813/.54 [B]—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018003429

First US Edition 2018

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