| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
x, 304 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents |
Personal matters -- Introducing myself -- Being taken for granite -- Indian uncles -- My libraries -- My island -- On the frontier -- Readings -- All happy families -- Things not actually present : On the book of fantasy and J.L. Borges -- Reading young, reading old : Mark Twain's diaries of Adam and Eve -- Thinking about Cordwainer Smith -- Strews-rhythm in poetry and prose -- Rhythmic pattern in The Lord of the rings -- The wilderness within : The sleeping beauty and "the poacher" -- Off the page : loud cows : a talk and a poem about reading aloud -- Discussions and opinions -- Fact and/or/plus fiction -- Award and gender -- On genetic determinism -- About feet -- Dogs, cars, and dancers : thoughts about beauty -- Collectors, rhymesters, and drummers -- Telling is listening -- The operating instructions -- "A war without end" -- On writing -- A matter of trust -- The writer and the character -- Unquestioned assumptions -- Prides : an essay on writing workshops -- The question I get asked most often -- Old body not writing -- The writer on, and at, her work. |
| Subject |
Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-2018.
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Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-2018 -- Authorship.
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Science fiction -- Authorship.
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Science fiction -- History and criticism.
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| ISBN |
1590300068 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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