Ursula K. Le Guin (October 21, 1929-January 22, 2018)
Breaking into the Spell
The queen of science fiction on war, the problem with literary realism and learning to write as a woman.
By Alexander Chee
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The Fantastic Ursula K. Le Guin
The literary mainstream once relegated her work to the margins. Then she transformed the mainstream.
By Julie Phillips
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Ursula K. Le Guin on Anger
“Anger continued on past its usefulness becomes unjust, then dangerous… It fuels not positive activism but regression, obsession, vengeance, self-righteousness. Corrosive, it feeds off itself, destroying its host in the process.”
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Celebrate the Life & Writing of Ursula K. Le Guin (R.I.P.) with Classic Radio Dramatizations of Her Stories
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The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
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Ursula K. Le Guin On ‘Starting Late’ as a Writer
Posted by Mark Armstrong, from a Paris Review interview with John Wray.
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Ursula Le Guin: ‘Wizardry is artistry’
As Ursula Le Guin receives the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters at the National Book Awards, she talks to Hari Kunzru about alternative fictional worlds
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URSULA K. LE GUIN: THERE’S ALWAYS ROOM FOR ANOTHER STORY. THERE’S ALWAYS ROOM FOR ANOTHER TUNE.
By CHOIRE SICHA
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