Today is Ursula K. Le Guin’s 80th birthday.
I read The Dispossessed for the first time during my junior year of college, and its lesson, in a friend’s words, that “it’s always more complicated” has stayed with me, even if I don’t always remember it. Three Roads Four Ways to Forgiveness should be read by any [...]
Happy 80th Birthday, Ursula K. Le Guin
October 21, 2009 – 1:18 am
Ursula K. Le Guin calls the NY Times out on Genre Ignorance
May 9, 2009 – 12:30 am
When J.G. Ballard died last month, the New York Times, in their obituary, could not deal with the fact that Ballard wrote science fiction, and infamously wrote: But that’s like calling Brave New World science fiction.
Ursula K. Le Guin, who also writes science fiction (while literary critics go into denial), has had enough of that [...]
Ursula K. Le Guin reads from A Wizard of Earthsea
January 11, 2008 – 2:44 pm
An MP3 of the Hugo, Nebula, and Tiptree winning author reading a chapter of A Wizard of Earthsea.